CVE-2016-9817
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.10%
Description
Xen through 4.7.x allows local ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving a (1) data or (2) prefetch abort with the ESR_EL2.EA bit set.
How to fix CVE-2016-9817
To remediate CVE-2016-9817, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/xen—upgrade to 4.7.1-r3 or later
- Debian/xen—upgrade to 4.8.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-9817 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.7.1-r3
- from 0, < 4.8.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |