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CVE-2016-2271

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Date: February 19, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (10)

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

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

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

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

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2271

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2271

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

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-2271

Severity Score

5.5

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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