CVE-2017-10911
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.04%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-10911
To remediate CVE-2017-10911, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/xen—upgrade to 4.9.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 4.11.11-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1:2.8+dfsg-7 or later
Is CVE-2017-10911 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 4.9.0-r0
- from 0, < 4.11.11-1
- from 0, < 1:2.8+dfsg-7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |