DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5242

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5242 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.599999904632568 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

5.599999904632568

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	xen	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	xen	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	xen	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	xen	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jun 7, 2016 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5242 advisory

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