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Medium
CVE-2017-15589
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101496
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-239.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
xen
Vulnerable Versions:
4.9.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 18th, 2017
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.