CVE-2016-3960 in Xen

Summary

Integer overflow in the x86 shadow pagetable code in Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host crash) or possibly gain privileges by shadowing a superpage mapping.

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• Reservation: 04/05/2016
• Disclosure: 04/19/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-82557 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-476 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.9
• EPSS: 0.00077
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3960
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3960
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-3960/