Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6258

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-08-02 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:22:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries.