CVE-2016-4962

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4962
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4962.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4962
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-06-07T14:06:15.217Z
Modified
2026-03-14T14:12:57.577686Z
Severity
  • 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The libxl device-handling in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or management facility confusion) or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest controlled areas of xenstore.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
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            {
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            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.3.2"
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            {
                "last_affected": "4.3.3"
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            },
            {
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        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.4.0"
            }
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    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.4.0-rc1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
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            {
                "introduced": "0"
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            {
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            {
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            {
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            },
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            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
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            }
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            {
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            },
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            }
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    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.5.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.6.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
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            {
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            },
            {
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        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4962.json"