Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4020

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-25 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:17:30
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The patch_instruction function in hw/i386/kvmvapic.c in QEMU does not initialize the imm32 variable, which allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory by accessing the Task Priority Register (TPR).