4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
The compat_iret function in Xen 3.1 through 4.5 iterates the wrong way
through a loop, which allows local 32-bit PV guest administrators to cause
a denial of service (large loop and system hang) via a hypercall_iret call
with EFLAGS.VM set.