CVE-2016-9386
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.10%Published: 1/23/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-9386DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9386
Description
The x86 emulator in Xen does not properly treat x86 NULL segments as unusable when accessing memory, which might allow local HVM guest users to gain privileges via vectors involving "unexpected" base/limit values.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.7.1-r1
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |