Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7777

6.3
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

Xen 4.7.x and earlier does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it.
Published Date October 7, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory