CVE-2017-10916 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2017-10916?

CVE-2017-10916 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 5 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The vCPU context-switch implementation in Xen through 4.8.x improperly interacts with the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) features, which makes it easier for guest OS users to defeat ASLR and other protection mechanisms, aka XSA-220.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10916?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2017-10916?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-10916 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10916 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen

• CVE-2017-10912 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10918 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10920 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10921 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-27466 Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface Critical 9.8

All Xen Xen vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-10916, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10916, GHSA-vrf7-6p2g-pr3x, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10916.