Denial of Service Vulnerability in Xen's x86 Segment Base Write Emulation Functionality

CVE-2016-9385 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The x86 segment base write emulation functionality in Xen 4.4.x through 4.7.x allows local x86 PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) by leveraging lack of canonical address checks.

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