CVE-2011-1936

Severity

46%

Complexity

32%

Confidentiality

115%

Xen, when using x86 Intel processors and the VMX virtualization extension is enabled, does not properly handle cpuid instruction emulation when exiting the VM, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors.

Xen, when using x86 Intel processors and the VMX virtualization extension is enabled, does not properly handle cpuid instruction emulation when exiting the VM, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-01-07 19:55:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-02-25 14:10:00

Affected Software

Xen

References

RHSA-2011:0927

[oss-security] 20110707 CVE-2011-1780, CVE-2011-1936, kernel/xen issues

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