Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE311-XEN-545732
  • published23 Jan 2017
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-9386  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Alpine security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Alpine:3.11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Alpine.

The x86 emulator in Xen does not properly treat x86 NULL segments as unusable when accessing memory, which might allow local HVM guest users to gain privileges via vectors involving "unexpected" base/limit values.