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CVE-2016-7094
Buffer overflow in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a…
Medium4.1EPSS 0.39%
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Description
Buffer overflow in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of service via a pagetable update.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3663 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 92864 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-187.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX216071 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1036753 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201611-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa187-0001-x86-shadow-Avoid-overflowing-sh_ctxt-seg_reg.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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