PT-2016-6809 · Citrix+1 · Xen+1

Jã©Rã©Mie Boutoille · Published 2016-07-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6258

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 versions 4.7.x and earlier

Description The issue allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges. This is achieved by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries in the PV pagetable code.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.7.x and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6258

DLA-571-1

DSA-3633-1

MGASA-2017-0012

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2497-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2093-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2100-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2473-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2507-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2528-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2725-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2473-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2507-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 292

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2507-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6258 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6258 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6258 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0012.html · Security Note
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa182-4.5.patch · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6258 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-09 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa182-4.6.patch · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3633-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-182.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6258 · Security Note
• http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX214954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2473-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-6258 · Vendor Advisory