CVE-2017-17046

Publication date 28 November 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xen 19.04 disco
Fixed 4.9.2-0ubuntu1
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 4.9.2-0ubuntu1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.9.2-0ubuntu1
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes


mdeslaur

hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
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