CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9678

Use After Free

Published: Jan 18, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Use-after-free vulnerability in Citrix Provisioning Services before 7.12 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Provisioning_services Citrix 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Provisioning_services Citrix 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Provisioning_services Citrix 7.6 (including) 7.6 (including)
Provisioning_services Citrix 7.7 (including) 7.7 (including)
Provisioning_services Citrix 7.8 (including) 7.8 (including)
Provisioning_services Citrix 7.9 (including) 7.9 (including)
Provisioning_services Citrix 7.11 (including) 7.11 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References