Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201631590000000
Revision Date:2016-04-13Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-3159 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:The fpu_fxrstor function in arch/x86/i387.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-2076.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-3159
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND xen package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '4.6.0-1ubuntu4.1').
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