CVE-2016-9637
An out of bounds array access issue was found in the Xen virtual machine monitor, built with the QEMU ioport support. It could occur while doing ioport read/write operations, if guest was to supply a 32bit address parameter. A privileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges on a host.
Find out more about CVE-2016-9637 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 6.5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
| Integrity Impact | Complete |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
CVSS v3 metrics
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.6 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | High |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (xen) | RHSA-2016:2963 | 2016-12-20 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 (xen) | RHSA-2016:2963 | 2016-12-20 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qemu-kvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Not affected |