Name | CVE-2016-3961 |
Description | Xen and the Linux kernel through 4.5.x do not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-516-1, DSA-3607-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | fixed |
stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | fixed | |
stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | fixed | |
buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed | |
buster (security) | 4.19.269-1 | fixed | |
bullseye | 5.10.158-2 | fixed | |
bullseye (security) | 5.10.162-1 | fixed | |
bookworm | 6.1.15-1 | fixed | |
sid | 6.1.20-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux | source | wheezy | 3.2.81-1 | DLA-516-1 | ||
linux | source | jessie | 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u2 | DSA-3607-1 | ||
linux | source | (unstable) | 4.5.2-1 |
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-174.html
Fixed by: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=103f6112f253017d7062cd74d17f4a514ed4485c