CVE-2016-5242 (GCVE-0-2016-5242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-07 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
Summary
The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.
Severity
5.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91015 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-181.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036035 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2016-06-03 00:00
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