Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-10911
CVE-2017-10911
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.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
11- git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.htmlnvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03nvd
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