CVE-2016-9637

Description

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

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219136

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-199.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037397

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94699

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3