CVE-2017-15589 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2017-15589?

CVE-2017-15589 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 18 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15589?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2017-15589?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-15589 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15589 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-2017-15589, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15589, GHSA-cjqp-w58x-g83v, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15589.