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CVE-2017-10911
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-07-05T01:29:00.550 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:00:54.407

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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