CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-10911
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The make_response function in drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.8 allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS (or other guest OS) kernel memory by leveraging the copying of uninitialized padding fields in Xen block-interface response structures, aka XSA-216.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.11.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 security.gentoo.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 security.gentoo.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory