The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors relates to the insecure management of privileges, which allows attackers to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors is related to an emulation error in PV x86, where there is no check for the limit on the descriptor table. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to access confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3961

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...