Information Exposure Affecting xen package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-XEN-22220037
  • published5 Nov 2026
  • disclosed13 Dec 2016

Introduced: 13 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9932  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 xen.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.