VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2016-5242
CVSS score5.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-06-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.