CVE-2016-7777

Description

Xen 4.7.x and earlier does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it.

References

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX217363

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-09

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-190.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036942

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93344

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3