SB2013110104 - Information disclosure in xen (Alpine package)
Published: November 1, 2013
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4368)
CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The outs instruction emulation in Xen 3.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and earlier, when using FS: or GS: segment override, uses an uninitialized variable as a segment base, which allows local 64-bit PV guests to obtain sensitive information (hypervisor stack content) via unspecified vectors related to stale data in a segment register.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.