Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9756

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-28 07:42:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:03
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.12 does not properly initialize Code Segment (CS) in certain error cases, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.