CVE-2017-17046

medium

Published 2017-11-28 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2

2.1

VIR risk

6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

65%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17046

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-245.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.