CVE-2016-9815

Publication date 27 February 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Xen through 4.7.x allows local ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host panic) by sending an asynchronous abort.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xen	17.04 zesty	Fixed 4.8.0-1ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 4.7.0-0ubuntu2.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.9
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

This is XSA-201

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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