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CVE-2016-9377 (GCVE-0-2016-9377)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-22 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:50
VLAI
Summary
Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x on AMD systems without the NRip feature, when emulating instructions that generate software interrupts, allows local HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging IDT entry miscalculation.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94475 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-196.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037345 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2016-11-22 00:00
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  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.