Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-2270

Title: Debian Debian Linux Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-2270.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Feb 19, 2016
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.8 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.48%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-2270: Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host reboot) via vectors related to multiple mappings of MMIO pages with different cachability settings.

Impacted Vendors

O
oracle 1
D
debian 1
R
redhat 1
X
xensource_inc 1
X
xen 1
F
fedoraproject 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177990.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178518.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035042 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-154.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177990.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178518.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035042 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-154.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-2270 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.