CVE-2016-3158 in Xeninfo

Summary

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.

If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Reservation

03/15/2016

Disclosure

04/13/2016

Status

Confirmed

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

Sources

Want to stay up to date on a daily basis?

Enable the mail alert feature now!