CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-10915
9.0 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.8.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory