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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-23T21:00:00

Updated: 2017-06-30T16:57:01

Reserved: 2016-11-17T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-9386

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-23T21:59:02.957

Modified: 2017-07-01T01:30:13.110


Link: CVE-2016-9386

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