CVE-2016-7093

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 21, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Aug 25, 2016

Description

Xen 4.5.3, 4.6.3, and 4.7.x allow local HVM guest OS administrators to overwrite hypervisor memory and consequently gain host OS privileges by leveraging mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-186.html
92865vdb-entry
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa186-0001-x86-emulate-Correct-boundary-interactions-of-emulate.patch
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX216071
1036752vdb-entry
GLSA-201611-09vendor-advisory

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