CVE-2017-10911 (GCVE-0-2017-10911)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-07-05 01:00
Modified
2024-08-05 17:50
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The make_response function in drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.8 allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS (or other guest OS) kernel memory by leveraging the copying of uninitialized padding fields in Xen block-interface response structures, aka XSA-216.
References
cve@mitre.org http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945
cve@mitre.org http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
cve@mitre.org https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
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