CVE-2026-79602 (GCVE-0-2026-79602)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-08 12:11
Modified
2026-09-10 18:08
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A guest with a PCI device assigned that has at least a BAR on the IO port space can trigger a BUG() in Xen.
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