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LIN7-6312 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2016-4020

Created: May 31, 2016    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Jun 16, 2016
Found In Version: 7.0.0.15
Fix Version: 7.0.0.17
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Userspace

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).

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-4020

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