7.8
CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2016-9382

First published: Mon Jan 23 2017(Updated: )

Xen 4.0.x through 4.7.x mishandle x86 task switches to VM86 mode, which allows local 32-bit x86 HVM guest OS users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by leveraging a guest operating system that uses hardware task switching and allows a new task to start in VM86 mode.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Xen Xen=4.0.0
Xen Xen=4.0.1
Xen Xen=4.0.2
Xen Xen=4.0.3
Xen Xen=4.0.4
Xen Xen=4.1.0
Xen Xen=4.1.1
Xen Xen=4.1.2
Xen Xen=4.1.3
Xen Xen=4.1.4
Xen Xen=4.1.5
Xen Xen=4.1.6.1
Xen Xen=4.2.0
Xen Xen=4.2.1
Xen Xen=4.2.2
Xen Xen=4.2.3
Xen Xen=4.2.4
Xen Xen=4.2.5
Xen Xen=4.3.0
Xen Xen=4.3.1
Xen Xen=4.3.2
Xen Xen=4.3.3
Xen Xen=4.3.4
Xen Xen=4.4.0
Xen Xen=4.4.1
Xen Xen=4.4.2
Xen Xen=4.4.3
Xen Xen=4.4.4
Xen Xen=4.5.0
Xen Xen=4.5.1
Xen Xen=4.5.2
Xen Xen=4.5.3
Xen Xen=4.5.5
Xen Xen=4.6.0
Xen Xen=4.6.1
Xen Xen=4.6.3
Xen Xen=4.6.4
Xen Xen=4.7.0
Xen Xen=4.7.1
Citrix XenServer=6.0.2
Citrix XenServer=6.2.0
Citrix XenServer=6.5
Citrix XenServer=7.0

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