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CVE-2017-17046 json

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…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-8215

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17046

  • xen Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4
  • xen Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.9.2-0ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17046

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xen Alpine 3.4 4.6.6-r2
  • xen Alpine 3.5 4.7.3-r3
  • xen Alpine 3.6 4.8.2-r3

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-17046

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-17046 updated cvss 6.8

xen: ARM: Some memory not scrubbed at boot (XSA-245)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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