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CVE-2011-1166 (GCVE-0-2011-1166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-07 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
VLAI
Summary
Xen, possibly before 4.0.2, allows local 64-bit PV guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) by specifying user mode execution without user-mode pagetables.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2011-03-14 00:00
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