CVE-2016-9386

HIGH7.8

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

Published Jan 23, 2017

Modified 1 years ago

Details

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.

References

WEB

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94471

WEB

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037340

WEB

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-191.html

ADVISORY

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56

WEB

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775

ADVISORY