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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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Candidate: CVE-2016-6259
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PublicDate: 2016-08-02
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References:
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 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6259
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 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-183.html
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Description:
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 Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
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 (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows
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 local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor
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 and VM crash) by triggering a safety check.
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Ubuntu-Description:
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Notes:
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 mdeslaur> 4.5+ only
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Bugs:
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Priority: medium
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Discovered-by: Andrew Cooper
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Assigned-to:
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Patches_xen:
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Tags_xen: universe-binary
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upstream_xen: needs-triage
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precise_xen: not-affected (4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.11)
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trusty_xen: not-affected (4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.6)
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vivid/ubuntu-core_xen: DNE
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vivid/stable-phone-overlay_xen: DNE
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wily_xen: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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xenial_xen: released (4.6.0-1ubuntu4.2)
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devel_xen: released (4.7.0-0ubuntu2)
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