Name | CVE-2016-9818 |
Description | Xen through 4.7.x allows local ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving an asynchronous abort while at HYP. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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xen (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch | 4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster | 4.11.4+37-g3263f257ca-1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.11.4+57-g41a822c392-2 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid | 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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xen | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
xen | source | (unstable) | 4.8.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - xen <ignored> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - xen <not-affected> (ARM support introduced in 4.4)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-201.html
CVE for fix via patch https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa201-4.patch