PT-2016-6194 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Wei Liu · Published 2016-06-07 · Updated 2017-01-09 · CVE-2016-4962

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Description The issue allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest-controlled areas of xenstore. This can lead to resource consumption or management facility confusion.

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.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4962

DSA-3633-1

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-2016:2533-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 154

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4962 · 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4962 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0012.html · Security Note
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-175.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0012 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3633-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4962 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4962 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4962 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2100-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4962 · Vendor Advisory