Information Exposure Affecting xen package, versions [,4.5.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383730
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-5165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.5.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The C+ mode offload emulation in the RTL8139 network card device model in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier, allows remote attackers to read process heap memory via unspecified vectors.

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