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CVE-2016-9637 (GCVE-0-2016-9637)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-16 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94699 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219136 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-199.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037397 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2016-12-06 00:00
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      "version": "33"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.