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CVE-2016-9932

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to...

3.3 LowFix available

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

0.42%Down 0.6 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 3.3

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
CVE-2016-9932
CVSS 3.0
3.3 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
CVE-2016-9932
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-10719 No score

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
EUVD-2016-10719
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-888m-xr85-xxqp 3.3

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to...

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
GHSA-888m-xr85-xxqp
CVSS 3.0
3.3 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2016-9932 3.3

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2016-9932
CVSS 3.0
3.3 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 3.3

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
CVE-2016-9932
CVSS 3.0
3.3 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2016-9932 3.3

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9932
CVSS 3.0
3.3 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2016-9932 3.3

CMPXCHG8B emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.7.x on x86 systems allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a "supposedly-ignored" operand size prefix.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9932
CVSS 3.0
3.3 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0012 No score

Updated xen packages fix security vulnerability

This xen update is based on upstream 4.5.5 maintenance release, and fixes the following security issues:

The qemu implementation in libvirt before 1.3.0 and Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host disk consumption) by writing to stdout or stderr (CVE-2014-3672)

The xrstor function in arch/x86/xstate.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 (CVE-2016-3158).

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 (CVE-2016-3159).

The VGA module in QEMU improperly performs bounds checking on banked access to video memory, which allows local guest OS administrators to execute arbitrary code on the host by changing access modes after setting the bank register, aka the "Dark Portal" issue (CVE-2016-3710).

Integer overflow in the VGA module in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by editing VGA registers in VBE mode (CVE-2016-3712).

Integer overflow in the x86 shadow pagetable code in Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host crash) or possibly gain privileges by shadowing a superpage mapping (CVE-2016-3960).

The libxl device-handling in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or management facility confusion) or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest controlled areas of xenstore (CVE-2016-4962).

The libxl device-handling in Xen through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (management tool confusion) by manipulating information in the backend directories in xenstore (CVE-2016-4963).

The guest_walk_tables function in arch/x86/mm/guest_walk.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly handle the Page Size (PS) page table entry bit at the L4 and L3 page table levels, which might allow local guest OS users to gain privileges via a crafted mapping of memory (CVE-2016-4480).

The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion (CVE-2016-5242).

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion (CVE-2016-5403).

The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries (CVE-2016-6258).

Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check (CVE-2016-6259).

The get_page_from_l3e function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges via vectors related to L3 recursive pagetables (CVE-2016-7092).

Xen 4.5.3, 4.6.3, and 4.7.x allow local HVM guest OS administrators to overwrite hypervisor memory and consequently gain host OS privileges by leveraging mishandling of…

Record
MGASA-2017-0012
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1 No score

xen-4.15.1_01-1.2 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the xen-4.15.1_01-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:3207-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

  • A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013)
  • CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932)
  • PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:3207-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:3208-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

  • A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013)
  • CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932)
  • PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024)
  • A missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation could lead to a hypervisor crash leading to a Denial of Servce. (XSA-203, bsc#1014300, CVE-2016-10025)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:3208-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:3221-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

  • A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013)
    • CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932)
    • PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:3221-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:3241-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

  • A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013)
  • CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932)
  • PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:3241-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:0718-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-10155: The virtual hardware watchdog 'wdt_i6300esb' was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1024183)
  • CVE-2017-2620: In CIRRUS_BLTMODE_MEMSYSSRC mode the bitblit copy routine cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo failed to check the memory region, allowing for an out-of-bounds write that allows for privilege escalation (bsc#1024834)
  • CVE-2017-2615: An error in the bitblt copy operation could have allowed a malicious guest administrator to cause an out of bounds memory access, possibly leading to information disclosure or privilege escalation (bsc#1023004)
  • CVE-2014-8106: A heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA emulator allowed local guest users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to blit regions (bsc#907805)
  • CVE-2016-9911: The USB EHCI Emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while processing packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest user/process could have used this issue to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014507)
  • CVE-2016-9921: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used this flaw to crash the process instance on the host, resulting in DoS (bsc#1015169)
  • CVE-2016-9922: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used this flaw to crash the process instance on the host, resulting in DoS (bsc#1015169)
  • CVE-2016-10013: Xen allowed local 64-bit x86 HVM guest OS users to gain privileges by leveraging mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation (bsc#1016340).
  • CVE-2016-9932: CMPXCHG8B emulation on x86 systems allowed local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory via a 'supposedly-ignored' operand size prefix (bsc#1012651).
  • CVE-2016-9101: A memory leak in hw/net/eepro100.c allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging an i8255x (PRO100) NIC device (bsc#1013668)
  • CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite loop issue while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside guest could have used this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading to DoS (bsc#1013657)
  • A malicious guest could have, by frequently rebooting over extended periods of time, run the host system out of memory, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) (bsc#1022871)
  • CVE-2016-10024: Xen allowed local x86 PV guest OS kernel administrators to cause a denial of service (host hang or crash) by modifying the instruction stream asynchronously while performing certain kernel operations (bsc#1014298)

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1002496: Added support for reloading clvm in block-dmmd block-dmmd
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:0718-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Alpine:v3.10
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.11
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.12
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.13
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.14
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.15
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.16
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.17
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.18
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.19
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Alpine:v3.20
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.21
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.22
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.23
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.24
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.3
before 4.6.3-r4
4.6.3-r4
xen
Alpine:v3.4
before 4.6.3-r6
4.6.3-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.5
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.6
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.7
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.8
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.9
before 4.7.1-r3
4.7.1-r3
xen
Debian:12
before 4.8.0~rc3-1
4.8.0~rc3-1
xen
Debian:13
before 4.8.0~rc3-1
4.8.0~rc3-1
xen
Debian:14
before 4.8.0~rc3-1
4.8.0~rc3-1
xen
Debian:7
before 4.1.6.lts1-8, plus listed versions
4.1.4-34.1.4-3+deb7u14.1.4-3+deb7u24.1.4-3+deb7u34.1.4-3+deb7u4
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4.1.4-3+deb7u54.1.4-3+deb7u64.1.4-3+deb7u74.1.4-3+deb7u84.1.4-3+deb7u94.1.4-44.1.6.1-1+deb7u14.1.6.lts1-14.1.6.lts1-24.1.6.lts1-34.1.6.lts1-44.1.6.lts1-54.1.6.lts1-64.1.6.lts1-7
4.1.6.lts1-8
xen
Debian:8
before 4.4.1-9+deb8u9, plus listed versions
4.4.1-94.4.1-9+deb8u14.4.1-9+deb8u24.4.1-9+deb8u34.4.1-9+deb8u4
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4.4.1-9+deb8u54.4.1-9+deb8u64.4.1-9+deb8u74.4.1-9+deb8u8
4.4.1-9+deb8u9
xen
Mageia:5
before 4.5.5-1.1.mga5
4.5.5-1.1.mga5
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
before 4.5.5_04-22.6.1
4.5.5_04-22.6.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
before 4.5.5_04-22.6.1
4.5.5_04-22.6.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
before 4.5.5_04-22.6.1
4.5.5_04-22.6.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
before 4.5.5_04-22.6.1
4.5.5_04-22.6.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
before 4.7.1_04-28.1
4.7.1_04-28.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 4.7.1_04-28.1
4.7.1_04-28.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 4.7.1_04-28.1
4.7.1_04-28.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 4.7.1_04-28.1
4.7.1_04-28.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
before 4.4.4_12-46.1
4.4.4_12-46.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
before 4.4.4_12-46.1
4.4.4_12-46.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
before 4.4.4_12-46.1
4.4.4_12-46.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
before 4.4.4_05-22.28.2
4.4.4_05-22.28.2
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
before 4.4.4_05-22.28.2
4.4.4_05-22.28.2
xen
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 5
before 4.2.5_21-35.1
4.2.5_21-35.1
xen
SUSE:Manager 2.1
before 4.2.5_21-35.1
4.2.5_21-35.1
xen
SUSE:Manager Proxy 2.1
before 4.2.5_21-35.1
4.2.5_21-35.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
before 4.2.5_21-35.1
4.2.5_21-35.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
before 4.2.5_21-35.1
4.2.5_21-35.1
xen
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.9, plus listed versions
4.3.0-1ubuntu14.3.0-1ubuntu24.3.0-1ubuntu34.3.0-1ubuntu44.3.0-1ubuntu5
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4.4.0-0ubuntu34.4.0-0ubuntu44.4.0-0ubuntu54.4.0-0ubuntu5.14.4.0-0ubuntu5.24.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.14.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.24.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.34.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.44.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.54.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.64.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.14.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.24.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.34.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.44.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.54.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.64.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.7
4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.9
xen
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3, plus listed versions
4.5.1-0ubuntu14.5.1-0ubuntu24.6.0-1ubuntu14.6.0-1ubuntu24.6.0-1ubuntu44.6.0-1ubuntu4.14.6.0-1ubuntu4.2
4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
xen
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.15.1_01-1.2
4.15.1_01-1.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
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Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2016-9932 is a low vulnerability (CVSS 3.3) in Xen, published December 21, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.42%, the 36th percentile. Fixed in xen 4.7.1-r3.

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