CVE-2017-17046 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2017-17046?

CVE-2017-17046 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 28 Nov 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 on the ARM platform allowing guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from DRAM after a reboot, because disjoint blocks, and physical addresses that do not start at zero, are mishandled.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17046?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2017-17046?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-17046 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17046 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-2017-17046, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17046, GHSA-77j8-57q3-5v26, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17046.