vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-56f0f11e-ba4d-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5 (CVE-2016-9383): xen-kernel -- x86 64-bit bit test instruction emulation broken
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Dec 4, 2016 | Dec 4, 2016 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 4, 2016
Added
Dec 4, 2016
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
The Xen Project reports: The x86 instructions BT, BTC, BTR, and BTS, when used with a destination memory operand and a source register rather than an immediate operand, access a memory location offset from that specified by the memory operand as specified by the high bits of the register source. A malicious guest can modify arbitrary memory, allowing for arbitrary code execution (and therefore privilege escalation affecting the whole host), a crash of the host (leading to a DoS), or information leaks. The vulnerability is sometimes exploitable by unprivileged guest user processes.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-xen-kernel
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