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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1604-XEN-621407
  • published11 May 2016
  • disclosed11 May 2016
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Introduced: 11 May 2016

CVE-2016-3710  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

The VGA module in QEMU improperly performs bounds checking on banked access to video memory, which allows local guest OS administrators to execute arbitrary code on the host by changing access modes after setting the bank register, aka the "Dark Portal" issue.

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