CVE-2016-6259

Name	CVE-2016-6259
Description	Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check.
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)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: local)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	jessie (security), jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u10	fixed
	buster, sid, stretch	4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u7	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
xen	source	(unstable)	4.8.0~rc3-1	medium
xen	source	jessie	(not affected)
xen	source	wheezy	(not affected)

Notes

[jessie] - xen <not-affected> (Only affects 4.5 and later)
[wheezy] - xen <not-affected> (Only affects 4.5 and later)
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-183.html