CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12134
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-682
Description
The xen_biovec_phys_mergeable function in drivers/xen/biomerge.c in Xen might allow local OS guest users to corrupt block device data streams and consequently obtain sensitive memory information, cause a denial of service, or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect block IO merge-ability calculation.
Affected configurations
• xen xen
• citrix xenserver 6.0.2
• citrix xenserver 6.2.0
• citrix xenserver 6.5
• citrix xenserver 7.0
• citrix xenserver 7.1
• citrix xenserver 7.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-682 Incorrect Calculation weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/4 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100343 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039176 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-229.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477656 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/4 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100343 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039176 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-229.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477656 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/ usn.ubuntu.com