PT-2016-1711 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Ling Liu + 1 · Published 2016-04-19 · Updated 2017-01-09 · CVE-2016-3960

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by an integer overflow in the x86 shadow pagetable code. This can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash, or possibly gain privileges by shadowing a superpage mapping.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-01037

CVE-2016-3960

DLA-571-1

DSA-3554-1

MGASA-2017-0012

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2497-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2093-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2100-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2528-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2725-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 164

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3960 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3554 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2725-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3554-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2093-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2528-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3960 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0012.html · Security Note
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-173.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3960 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01037 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0012 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3960 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3960 · Vendor Advisory