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vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9932: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 26, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
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