suse · CVE-2016-4962

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:42:33 UTC Updated: 2024-07-27 01:04:28 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4962 severity moderate: SUSE including 25 source package names (xen, xen-4.4.4_04-22.22.2, …), 53 product×package rows across 12 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for Teradata, … (12 product lines)): Fixed 50, Known Not Affected 3.

Description:

The libxl device-handling in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or management facility confusion) or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest controlled areas of xenstore.

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