CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-10917
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.4 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
Xen through 4.8.x does not validate the port numbers of polled event channel ports, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information, aka XSA-221.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.8.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99157 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038731 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 security.gentoo.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-221.html Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99157 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038731 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 security.gentoo.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-221.html Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory