Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 3, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 14, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Last updated
Feb 3, 2023
Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.
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