Security Advisory
CVE-2016-5242
5.6
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.
Published Date
June 7, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory