Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9637

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-02-16 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:03
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.