CVE-2013-2076

Xen 4.0.x-4.2.x - Information Disclosure via x87 Register Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x, when running on AMD64 processors, only save/restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE/FXRSTOR when an exception is pending, which allows one domain to determine portions of the state of floating point instructions of other domains, which can be leveraged to obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-1056. NOTE: this is the documented behavior of AMD64 processors, but it is inconsistent with Intel processors in a security-relevant fashion that was not addressed by the kernels.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/03/1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006

Scores

EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 25.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (14)
xen/xen 4.0.0
xen/xen 4.0.1
xen/xen 4.0.2
xen/xen 4.0.3
xen/xen 4.0.4
xen/xen 4.2.0
xen/xen 4.2.1
xen/xen 4.2.2
xen/xen 4.1.0
xen/xen 4.1.1
... and 4 more
Published Aug 28, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026