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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-3158

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…

LOW 3.8EPSS 0.41%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.0
3.8 LOWCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.41% probability · 35th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-200, CWE-284
Affected
xen/xen · fedoraproject/fedora · oracle/vm server
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.