Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6259

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

Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check.

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