Information disclosure in Xen - CVE-2015-2045

 

Information disclosure in Xen - CVE-2015-2045

Published: March 12, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32429
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2045
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The HYPERVISOR_xen_version hypercall in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly initialize data structures, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.


Affected software

Xen
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
xen (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2015-2045

Install update from vendor's website.

xen (Alpine package) - update to 4.5.0-r0

External References

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