CVE-2016-4962

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 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: 2016-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The libxl device-handling in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or management facility confusion) or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest controlled areas of xenstore.

Affected products

Oracle Vm Server: 3.3, 3.4
xen: 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 4.4.0 (+11)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91006
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036023
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-175.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91006
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036023
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-175.html

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