Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xen package, versions [4.5.3,4.7.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383847
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Sep 2016

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

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