CVE-2016-3159
Published Apr 13, 2016
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The fpu_fxrstor function in arch/x86/i387.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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 3.8
- Impact score
- 1.4
- Exploitability score
- 2
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Severity
- LOW
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 1.7
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.1
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-200
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