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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-17046): xen vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 28, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xen
Title
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