CVE-2016-4963

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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-284

Description

The libxl device-handling in Xen through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (management tool confusion) by manipulating information in the backend directories in xenstore.

Affected products

xen: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.0 (+30)

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036024
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-178.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00006.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036024
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-178.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00006.html

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