Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99162
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038720
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/089bc0143f489bd3a4578bdff5f4ca68fb26f341
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3945