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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-06-07T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.964Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5242

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-06-07T14:06:17.183

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:53:54.857

Link: CVE-2016-5242

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-06-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5242 - Bugzilla