vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-3158: xen -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 13, 2016
Added
Apr 22, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The xrstor function in arch/x86/xstate.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-2076.

Solution

debian-upgrade-xen
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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