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CVE-2017-15589

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Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from the host OS (or an arbitrary guest OS) because intercepted I/O operations can cause a write of data from uninitialized hypervisor stack memory.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-239.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568

Details

Published: 2017-10-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

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