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CVE-2016-2270

Date: February 19, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.8

Related Resources (11)

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

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

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2270

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

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2270

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2270

Url: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-154.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035042

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-2270

Severity Score

6.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.8
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

Base Score:	4.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	SINGLE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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