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CVE-2017-10911

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 sensitiv

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Summary

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.

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Affected versions

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References 11

xenbits.xen.org

debian.org

git.kernel.org

lists.debian.org

security.gentoo.org

kernel.org

securityfocus.com

securitytracker.com

GitHub · torvalds/linux