CVE-2016-9817

medium

Description

Xen through 4.7.x allows local ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving a (1) data or (2) prefetch abort with the ESR_EL2.EA bit set.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94581

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/29/3

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

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa201-3.patch

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa201-3-4.7.patch

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-201.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037358

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-27

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H