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CVE-2016-2270 Detail

Description

Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host reboot) via vectors related to multiple mappings of MMIO pages with different cachability settings.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  02/22/2016

Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.8 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 4.0
Exploitability Score: 2.3

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.6 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 3.1

Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177990.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178518.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519 Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035042 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-154.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Technical Details

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2270
NVD Published Date:
02/19/2016
NVD Last Modified:
06/30/2017