CVE-2016-6493 (GCVE-0-2016-6493)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-19 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:29
VLAI
Summary
Citrix XenApp 6.x before 6.5 HRP07 and 7.x before 7.9 and Citrix XenDesktop before 7.9 might allow attackers to weaken an unspecified security mitigation via vectors related to memory permission.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036539 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92316 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX215460 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2016-08-03 00:00
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