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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9377

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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 IDT entry miscalculation.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 xen

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.8.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 xen

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.8.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 xen

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.8.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org