cve-2016-4020
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-25 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:17
Severity ?
Summary
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).
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=691a02e2ce0c413236a78dee6f2651c937b09fb0
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86067Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1856Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313686Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01106.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01118.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
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