DSA-3633-1 xen -- xenID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:602568 | Date: (C)2016-08-01 (M)2023-02-20 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2015-8338 Julien Grall discovered that Xen on ARM was susceptible to denial of service via long running memory operations. CVE-2016-4480 Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect page table handling could result in privilege escalation inside a Xen guest instance. CVE-2016-4962 Wei Liu discovered multiple cases of missing input sanitising in libxl which could result in denial of service. CVE-2016-5242 Aaron Cornelius discovered that incorrect resource handling on ARM systems could result in denial of service. CVE-2016-6258 Jeremie Boutoille discovered that incorrect pagetable handling in PV instances could result in guest to host privilege escalation.