CVE-2016-2271

Description

VMX in Xen 4.6.x and earlier, when using an Intel or Cyrix CPU, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via vectors related to a non-canonical RIP.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-170.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035043

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

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX209443

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178518.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177990.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3