CVE - CVE-2017-10911

CVE-ID
CVE-2017-10911	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:99162 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8 CONFIRM:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341 CONFIRM:https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html DEBIAN:DSA-3920 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920 DEBIAN:DSA-3927 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927 DEBIAN:DSA-3945 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945 GENTOO:GLSA-201708-03 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html SECTRACK:1038720 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20170704	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20170704)
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