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CVE-2016-2271
VMX in Xen 4.6.x and earlier, when using an Intel or Cyrix CPU, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash)…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.39%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
VMX in Xen 4.6.x and earlier, when using an Intel or Cyrix CPU, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via vectors related to a non-canonical RIP.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 66% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- DSA-3519 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-e48f4bd14f (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-f8121efdac (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 1035043 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-170.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX209443 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201604-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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