[CVE-2016-6258] Xen exploitation part 3: XSA-182, Qubes escape

CVE

CVE-2016-6258

Published

2016-08-03 22:00

Collected

2026-07-08 12:39

---
id: 4540
title: "[CVE-2016-6258] Xen exploitation part 3: XSA-182, Qubes escape"
cve: CVE-2016-6258
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-3-xsa-182-qubes-escape.html"
published_at: "2016-08-03T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["exploitation", "cve", "hypervisor", "vm-escape", "xen", "qubes-os"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4540"
lang: en
---

# [CVE-2016-6258] Xen exploitation part 3: XSA-182, Qubes escape

## Summary

Final part of the Xen exploitation series: discovering XSA-182 (CVE-2016-6258), a guest-to-host flaw in paravirtualized memory management, exploited on Qubes OS to seize dom0 from an untrusted VM.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **CVE:** CVE-2016-6258
- **Published:** 2016-08-03T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-3-xsa-182-qubes-escape.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4540