CVE-2016-3961

Publication date

2016-04-15 14:00:00

Family

mitre

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.