cve/2016/CVE-2016-9756.md

### [CVE-2016-9756](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9756)
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### 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

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon