Information Exposure Affecting xen package, versions [,4.9.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383894
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-17046  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.9.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x on the ARM platform allowing guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from DRAM after a reboot, because disjoint blocks, and physical addresses that do not start at zero, are mishandled.

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