CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9386

Published: Jan 23, 2017 | Modified: Jul 01, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The x86 emulator in Xen does not properly treat x86 NULL segments as unusable when accessing memory, which might allow local HVM guest users to gain privileges via vectors involving unexpected base/limit values.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xenserver Citrix 6.0.2 (including) 6.0.2 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 6.2.0 (including) 6.2.0 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 6.5 (including) 6.5 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)

References