CVE-2016-1571

Description

The paging_invlpg function in include/asm-x86/paging.h in Xen 3.3.x through 4.6.x, when using shadow mode paging or nested virtualization is enabled, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a non-canonical guest address in an INVVPID instruction, which triggers a hypervisor bug check.

References

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-168.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034745

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX205496

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3