CVE-2016-9932

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Published 2017-01-26 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
3.3

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
34%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9932

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9932.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219378

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-200.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.8.0~rc3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.8.0~rc3-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.8.0~rc3-1
debian debiansidfixed4.8.0~rc3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.8.0~rc3-1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.