vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-4020: Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1856)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 25, 2016
Added
Aug 5, 2017
Modified
Feb 14, 2023

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).

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-qemu-imgredhat-upgrade-qemu-kvmredhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-commonredhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-debuginforedhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools
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