Security Advisory

CVE-2016-3961

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-04-15 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:10:31
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Xen and the Linux kernel through 4.5.x do not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area.