CVE-2016-10024

Publication date 26 January 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Xen through 4.8.x allows local x86 PV guest OS kernel administrators to cause a denial of service (host hang or crash) by modifying the instruction stream asynchronously while performing certain kernel operations.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xen	17.04 zesty	Fixed 4.8.0-1ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 4.7.0-0ubuntu2.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.9
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.13

Notes

mdeslaur

This is XSA-202

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
xen	Upstream: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa202.patch Upstream: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa202-4.4.patch Upstream: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa202-4.6.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H