CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9637
7.5 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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 configurations
• citrix xenserver 6.0.2
• citrix xenserver 6.2.0
• citrix xenserver 6.5
• citrix xenserver 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94699 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037397 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-199.html xenbits.xen.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219136 support.citrix.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94699 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037397 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-199.html xenbits.xen.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219136 support.citrix.com