Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen  (opens in a new tab)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-ALPINE36-XEN-367633
  • published21 Sept 2016
  • disclosed21 Sept 2016

Introduced: 21 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7093  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Alpine security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Alpine:3.6.

NVD Description

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

Xen 4.5.3, 4.6.3, and 4.7.x allow local HVM guest OS administrators to overwrite hypervisor memory and consequently gain host OS privileges by leveraging mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation.