CVE-2017-10911 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2017-10911?

CVE-2017-10911 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Jul 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10911?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2017-10911?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-10911 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10911 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-10911, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10911, GHSA-ch8x-4fwh-q3hq, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10911.