Information Exposure Affecting xen package, versions [4.5.0,4.8.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383804
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The vCPU context-switch implementation in Xen through 4.8.x improperly interacts with the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) features, which makes it easier for guest OS users to defeat ASLR and other protection mechanisms, aka XSA-220.

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