CVE-2017-15589
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101496
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-239.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15589.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15589
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.