CVE-2016-9378

Name	CVE-2016-9378
Description	Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x on AMD systems without the NRip feature, when emulating instructions that generate software interrupts, allows local HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging an incorrect choice for software interrupt delivery.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	low (attack range: local)
Debian Bugs	845669

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	wheezy	4.1.4-3+deb7u9	fixed
	wheezy (security)	4.1.6.lts1-8	fixed
	jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u9	fixed
	jessie (security)	4.4.1-9+deb8u10	fixed
	buster, sid, stretch	4.8.1-1+deb9u1	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.8.1-1+deb9u3	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Debian Bugs
xen	source	(unstable)	4.8.0-1	low	845669
xen	source	jessie	(not affected)
xen	source	wheezy	(not affected)

Notes

[jessie] - xen <not-affected> (Only 4.5 onwards vulnerable)
[wheezy] - xen <not-affected> (Only 4.5 onwards vulnerable)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-196.html