PT-2016-1286 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Ling Liu · Published 2016-02-19 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-2271

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.6.x and earlier

Description The issue is related to errors in pointer dereferencing in the VMX component of the Xen hypervisor. It can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service, specifically a guest crash, through vectors related to a non-canonical RIP. The estimated number of potentially affected devices worldwide is not available.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.6.x and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-00583

CVE-2016-2271

DLA-479-1

DSA-3519-1

MGASA-2016-0098

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0995-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1154-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1745-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 296

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2271 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178518.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0098.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2271 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1154-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2271 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3519-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2271 · Security Note
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-170.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177990.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1745-1 · Vendor Advisory