CVE-2016-10025
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
VMFUNC emulation in Xen 4.6.x through 4.8.x on x86 systems using AMD virtualization extensions (aka SVM) allows local HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) by leveraging a missing NULL pointer check.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
References
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.