CVE-2017-15589
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.09%Published: 10/18/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-15589DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15589
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.9.0-r6
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |