Description
Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79592 ↗
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-155.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034479 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html ↗