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Medium severity5.6NVD Advisory· Published Jun 7, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5242

CVE-2016-5242

Description

The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.

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Affected products

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  • Xen/Xen13 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 12 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 4.4.x - 4.6.x

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