CVE-2017-17046 (GCVE-0-2017-17046)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-28 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:43
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-245.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2017-11-28 00:00
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