CVE-2016-4962: Oracle Vm Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The libxl device-handling in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or management facility confusion) or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest controlled areas of xenstore.

Affected products

• Oracle Vm Server: version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only
• Xen Xen: version 4.3.0 only; version 4.3.1 only; version 4.3.2 only; version 4.3.3 only; version 4.3.4 only; version 4.4.0 only; …

Published 2016-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.