PT-2017-7711 · Amd+1 · Xen+1

Jan Beulich · Published 2016-12-21 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-10025

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 through 4.8.x

Description The issue allows local HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a hypervisor crash, by leveraging a missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation on x86 systems using AMD virtualization extensions.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.6.x through 4.8.x, consider applying a patch that includes a NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation to prevent the denial of service. 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-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10025

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0005-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3208-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 115

• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219378 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10025 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10025 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10025 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10025 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10025 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10025 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10025 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3208-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-203.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-10025 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8309 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10025 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8910 · Note