8.8
CWE
284
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2016-6258

First published: Tue Aug 02 2016(Updated: )

The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Xen Xen=3.4.0
Xen Xen=3.4.2
Xen Xen=3.4.3
Xen Xen=3.4.4
Xen Xen=4.0.0
Xen Xen=4.0.1
Xen Xen=4.0.3
Xen Xen=4.0.4
Xen Xen=4.1.0
Xen Xen=4.1.1
Xen Xen=4.1.2
Xen Xen=4.1.3
Xen Xen=4.1.4
Xen Xen=4.1.5
Xen Xen=4.2.0
Xen Xen=4.2.1
Xen Xen=4.2.2
Xen Xen=4.2.3
Xen Xen=4.3.0
Xen Xen=4.3.1
Xen Xen=4.4.0
Xen Xen=4.4.1
Xen Xen=4.5.0
Xen Xen=4.6.0
Xen Xen=4.6.1
Xen Xen=4.6.3
Xen Xen=4.7.0
Citrix XenServer=6.0
Citrix XenServer=6.0.2
Citrix XenServer=6.1
Citrix XenServer=6.2.0-sp1
Citrix XenServer=6.5.0-sp1
Citrix XenServer=7.0

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