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CVE-2016-7094

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7094 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Xen 4.7.x and earlier, specifically impacting x86 HVM guest OS administrators. This flaw allows a highly privileged local attacker to trigger a denial of service by manipulating pagetable updates. While the attack complexity is high, the potential impact is a complete denial of service for the affected system. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit codes like Metasploit or ExploitDB modules available, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 418 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xen

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-7094Moderate

xen: x86 HVM: Overflow of sh_ctxt->seg_reg[]

Sep 8, 2016

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201611-09
support.citrix.com / article/CTX216071
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3663
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
securityfocus.com / bid/92864
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1036753
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-187.html
PatchVendor Advisory
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/xsa187-0001-x86-shadow-Avoid-overflowing-sh_ctxt-seg_reg.patch
PatchVendor Advisory