FreeBSD xen-kernel x86 CMPXCHG8B emulation ignores size overrid
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 59 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cvelist | CVE-2016-9932 | 26 Jan 201715:00 | – | cvelist |
OSV | CVE-2016-9932 | 26 Jan 201715:59 | – | osv |
OSV | xen - security update | 30 May 201700:00 | – | osv |
OSV | xen - security update | 9 May 201700:00 | – | osv |
OSV | xen-4.15.1_01-1.2 on GA media | 15 Jun 202400:00 | – | osv |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 5 : xsa200_xen (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 11 May 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Xen CMPXCHG8B Emulation Information Disclosure (XSA-200) | 2 Feb 201700:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:3221-1) | 22 Dec 201600:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:3207-1) | 22 Dec 201600:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Citrix XenServer Multiple Vulnerabilities (CTX219378) | 25 Jan 201700:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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nessus | www.nessus.org/u |
cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
xenbits | www.xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-200.html |
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The x86 instruction CMPXCHG8B is supposed to ignore legacy operand
size overrides; it only honors the REX.W override (making it
CMPXCHG16B). So, the operand size is always 8 or 16. When support for
CMPXCHG16B emulation was added to the instruction emulator, this
restriction on the set of possible operand sizes was relied on in some
parts of the emulation; but a wrong, fully general, operand size value
was used for other parts of the emulation. As a result, if a guest
uses a supposedly-ignored operand size prefix, a small amount of
hypervisor stack data is leaked to the guests: a 96 bit leak to guests
running in 64-bit mode; or, a 32 bit leak to other guests.
A malicious unprivileged guest may be able to obtain sensitive
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