CVE-2016-9385

medium

Description

The x86 segment base write emulation functionality in Xen 4.4.x through 4.7.x allows local x86 PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) by leveraging lack of canonical address checks.

References

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

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

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-193.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037342

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94472

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-23

Updated: 2017-07-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H