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Kernel: Xen: Xsa-63: information leak via I/O instruction emulation

Published Oct 1, 2013

Description

Xen 4.3.x and earlier does not properly handle certain errors, which allows local HVM guests to obtain hypervisor stack memory via a (1) port or (2) memory mapped I/O write or (3) other unspecified operations related to addresses without associated memory.

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Red Hat statement

This issue does affect the version of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as we did not have support for Xen hypervisor.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Oct 1, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jun 12, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Sep 30, 2013