CVE-2016-6258
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-08-02 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:22
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries.
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