CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-9756.md

CVE-2016-9756

Description

arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.12 does not properly initialize Code Segment (CS) in certain error cases, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

POC

Reference

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2117d5398c81554fbf803f5fd1dc55eb78216c0c
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2117d5398c81554fbf803f5fd1dc55eb78216c0c

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon