CVE-2016-9932

Description

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.0•LOW•Score: 3.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
• v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 21%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-200•Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

  The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Systems

• xen•xen

  3.3.0 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.4.0 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.4.3 | 3.4.4 | 4.0.0 | 4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 4.1.0 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.4 | 4.1.5 | 4.1.6 | 4.1.6.1 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.5 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.1 | 4.3.2 | 4.3.3 | 4.3.4 | 4.4.0 | 4.4.1 | 4.4.2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.4 | 4.5.0 | 4.5.1 | 4.5.2 | 4.5.3 | 4.5.5 | 4.6.0 | 4.6.3 | 4.7.0

References (6)

• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-200.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037468
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94863
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219378