CVE-2016-4963

medium

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00006.html

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-178.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036024

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-06-07

Updated: 2018-09-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium