Privilege Escalation via Out-of-Range ioport Access in Xen

CVE-2016-9637 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The (1) ioport_read and (2) ioport_write functions in Xen, when qemu is used as a device model within Xen, might allow local x86 HVM guest OS administrators to gain qemu process privileges via vectors involving an out-of-range ioport access.

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