CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9637

Published: Feb 17, 2017 | Modified: Feb 08, 2018
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
3.7 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.5 IMPORTANT
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V3
7.6 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The (1) ioport_read and (2) ioport_write functions in Xen, when qemu is used as a device model within Xen, might allow local x86 HVM guest OS administrators to gain qemu process privileges via vectors involving an out-of-range ioport access.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xenserver Citrix 6.0.2 (including) 6.0.2 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 6.2.0-sp1 (including) 6.2.0-sp1 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 6.5-sp1 (including) 6.5-sp1 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat xen-0:3.0.3-148.el5_11 *
Xen Ubuntu precise *
Xen Ubuntu trusty *

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