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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:13:14 -0500
From: <cve-assign@...re.org>
To: <ppandit@...hat.com>
CC: <cve-assign@...re.org>, <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Kernel: kvm: stack memory information leakage

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> Linux kernel built with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine(CONFIG_KVM) support
> is vulnerable to an information leakage issue. It could occur on x86 platform,
> in 32bit mode, while emulating instructions.
> 
> A user/process could use this flaw to leak host kernel memory bytes.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400468
> https://git.kernel.org/linus/2117d5398c81554fbf803f5fd1dc55eb78216c0c

>> KVM: x86: drop error recovery in em_jmp_far and em_ret_far

>> was left uninitialized outside of long mode

Use CVE-2016-9756.

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