Medium severity4.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 21, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-7094
CVE-2016-7094
Description
Buffer overflow in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of service via a pagetable update.
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Affected products
17- osv-coords16 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/xen&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Manager%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%205
< 4.7.0_12-1.3+ 15 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.0_12-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.3_10-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-27.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.1.6_08-29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-27.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_08-40.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.3_10-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_04-22.22.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_08-40.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_04-22.22.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.3_10-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_08-40.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.3_10-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-27.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-27.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-27.1
Patches
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References
8- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-187.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa187-0001-x86-shadow-Avoid-overflowing-sh_ctxt-seg_reg.patchnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- support.citrix.com/article/CTX216071nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/92864nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1036753nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3663nvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-09nvd
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