CVE-2016-3960

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 19 Apr 2016, 14:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 00:10

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.08% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Apr 2016, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 00:10
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.08%• Percentile: 23%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    22 | 23 | 24

  • oracle•vm_server

    3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4

  • xen•xen

    na

References (9)