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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-15589: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-15589: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/15/2018
Modified
11/27/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-tools

References

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