suse · CVE-2016-9637

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:48:09 UTC Updated: 2025-11-05 04:15:16 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9637 severity moderate: SUSE including 378 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 498 product×package rows across 65 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (65 product lines)): Fixed 298, Known Affected 157, Known Not Affected 43.

Description:

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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