PT-2017-10102 · Xen+2 · Xen+2

Andrew Cooper · Published 2016-11-25 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-9385

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.4.x through 4.7.x

Description The issue allows local x86 PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash, by exploiting the lack of canonical address checks in the x86 segment base write emulation functionality.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.4.x through 4.7.x, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent a denial of service.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2364

CVE-2016-9385

DSA-3729-1

MGASA-2017-0012

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3134-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0007-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0008-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3067-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3083-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3156-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3174-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Xen

References · 176

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3067-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3729-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9385 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9385 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0012.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3174-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0012 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3083-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9385 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9385 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-193.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9385 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9385 · Vendor Advisory