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: 2016-09-21T14:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2016-7093

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2017-07-01T01:30:04.890

Link: CVE-2016-7093

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2016-7093 - Bugzilla