CVE-2016-7777: Race Condition
First published: Fri Oct 07 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Xen Xen | <=4.7.0 |
Never miss a vulnerability like this again
Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.
Reference Links
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- agent/author
- agent/references
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/remedy
- agent/event
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/first-publish-date
- vendor/xen
- canonical/xen xen
- version/xen xen/4.7.0