{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-07-26T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "xen: x86: Missing SMAP whitelisting in 32-bit exception / event delivery (XSA-183)",
    "id" : "1355983",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1355983"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.5",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "details" : [ "Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "xen",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6259\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6259\nhttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-183.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-6259",
  "csaw" : false
}