Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2016-6259 First vendor Publication 2016-08-02
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2016-08-04

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 6.2
Base Score 6.2 Environmental Score 6.2
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 6.2
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.5
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 4.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6259

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 6
Os 8

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-10-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1170.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-10 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2473-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2093-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0049aa6e5d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-01cc766201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-04 Name : The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : citrix_xenserver_CTX214954.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-02 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_04cf89e3585411e6b334002590263bf5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92130
CONFIRM http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX214954
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-183.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa183-4.6.patch
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa183-unstable.patch
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036447

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Date Informations
2021-05-04 12:52:39
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2016-10-13 13:25:06
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2016-10-11 13:21:32
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2016-09-03 13:27:33
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2016-08-10 13:25:32
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2016-08-09 13:23:26
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2016-08-05 13:26:03
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2016-08-04 09:24:26
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2016-08-03 13:26:21
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2016-08-02 21:24:31
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