vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-4020: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 25, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

The patch_instruction function in hw/i386/kvmvapic.c in QEMU does not initialize the imm32 variable, which allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory by accessing the Task Priority Register (TPR).

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
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