CVE-2016-9817
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.8.0-1 |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/29/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94581
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037358
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-201.html
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa201-3-4.7.patch
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa201-3.patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9817
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.