FKIE_CVE-2016-9637

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-02-17 02:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:56
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94699
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037397
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-199.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219136
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
citrix xenserver 6.0.2
citrix xenserver 6.2.0
citrix xenserver 6.5
citrix xenserver 7.0
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