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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7973 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:50:47.500Z

Reserved: 2016-08-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-7093

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-09-21T14:25:24.097

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-7093

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-09-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7093 - Bugzilla

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