ALPINE-CVE-2017-15589

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CVE-2017-15589
Published: 18 Oct 2017, 08:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:37

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

18 Oct 2017, 08:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:37
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from the host OS (or an arbitrary guest OS) because intercepted I/O operations can cause a write of data from uninitialized hypervisor stack memory.

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-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.6.6-r2 | < 4.7.3-r3 | < 4.8.2-r3 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.9.0-r6

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