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CVE-2016-10024

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

• Citrix XenServer: 6.0.2, 6.2.0, 6.5, 7.0 (and their updates)
• xen: through 4.8.0

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95021
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037517
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-202.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219378
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95021
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037517
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-202.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219378

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