CVE-2017-15589
Published: 18 October 2017
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
artful |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
| bionic |
Released
(4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
|
|
| cosmic |
Not vulnerable
(4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
|
|
| disco |
Not vulnerable
(4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
|
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
|
|
| upstream |
Released
(4.9.1)
|
|
| xenial |
Released
(4.6.4-0ubuntu1.4)
|
|
| zesty |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 6.5 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | None |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |