CVE-2017-10911 | BDVDB-2026-87270 Detail
Description#
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.