CVE-2016-9637
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-16 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94699
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037397
cve@mitre.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-199.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219136
Impacted products
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