FreeBSD VuXML: Documenting security issues in FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Ports Collection

CVE-2016-1571

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2016-02-28	xen-kernel -- VMX: intercept issue with INVLPG on non-canonical address

The following information is adapted from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project. CVE and the CVE logo are trademarks of The MITRE Corporation. CVE content is Copyright 2005, The MITRE Corporation.

CVE-2016-1571 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2016-1571
Phase	Assigned(20160111)

Description

The paging_invlpg function in include/asm-x86/paging.h in Xen 3.3.x through 4.6.x, when using shadow mode paging or nested virtualization is enabled, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a non-canonical guest address in an INVVPID instruction, which triggers a hypervisor bug check.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-168.html
CONFIRM	http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX205496
SECTRACK	1034745