CVE-2017-17046

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-09-28
Bugzilla:
1499825: CVE-2017-17046 xsa245 xen: ARM: Some memory not scrubbed at boot (XSA-245)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2017-17046 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 6.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

External References

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