The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3633-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6193 The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.964Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5242

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-06-07T14:06:17.183

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5242

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-06-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5242 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses