CVE-2016-1570

Description

From CVE.org

The PV superpage functionality in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 3.4.0, 3.4.1, and 4.1.x through 4.6.x allows local PV guests to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, gain privileges, or have unspecified other impact via a crafted page identifier (MFN) to the (1) MMUEXT_MARK_SUPER or (2) MMUEXT_UNMARK_SUPER sub-op in the HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op hypercall or (3) unknown vectors related to page table updates.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score66.9N/A
Attack VectorNetworkLocalN/A
Access ComplexityMediumMediumN/A
AuthenticationSingleNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactPartialCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactPartialCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactPartialCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges 360 Marvel Team as the original reporter.

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