ubuntu · CVE-2016-1571

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-01-22 15:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:54:22 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-1571 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xen), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily): released 3, ignored 1, needed 1.

Description:

The paging_invlpg function in include/asm-x86/paging.h in Xen 3.3.x through 4.6.x, when using shadow mode paging or nested virtualization is enabled, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a non-canonical guest address in an INVVPID instruction, which triggers a hypervisor bug check.

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