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Kernel: Xen: Xsa-66: information leak through fbld instruction emulation

Published Oct 1, 2013

Description

The fbld instruction emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x does not use the correct variable for the source effective address, which allows local HVM guests to obtain hypervisor stack information by reading the values used by the instruction.

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Red Hat statement

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does not affect the versions of the Linux kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as it does 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 Low
Public date Sep 30, 2013