vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-10911: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
2017-07-05
Added
2017-10-27
Modified
2024-10-01

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
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