CVE-2017-17046 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2017-11-28

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1549-1	xen security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-8215	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00057.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-245.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17046
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17046
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-245.html

History

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Subscriptions

Xen Xen

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-28T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:43:59.248Z

Reserved: 2017-11-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17046

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-28T23:29:00.320

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-17046

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-09-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17046 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-200

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