Information Exposure Affecting xen package, versions [,4.9.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383914
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15589  (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. 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.

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