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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.41% · top 65% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• [debian-lts-announce] 20171120 [SECURITY] [DLA 1181-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 101496 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-239.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-4050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20181018 [SECURITY] [DLA 1549-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• GLSA-201801-14 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 1039568 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 19:57 UTC.