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CVE-2016-9932

low

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.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037468

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94863

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219378

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-200.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-26

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00069