ALPINE-CVE-2017-10911

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CVE-2017-10911
Published: 05 Jul 2017, 01:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:35

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Jul 2017, 01:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:35
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Systems

  • alpine•xen

    < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.6.6-r0 | < 4.6.6-r0 | < 4.7.3-r0 | < 4.8.2-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0

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