Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-15589
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 products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
8- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-239.htmlnvdMailing ListMitigationPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/101496nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.htmlnvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14nvd
- support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050nvd
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