Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2004-XEN-663311
  • published23 Jan 2017
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-9381  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

Race condition in QEMU in Xen allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators to gain privileges by changing certain data on shared rings, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.