CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14317
5.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.9.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100826 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039350 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-233.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100826 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039350 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-233.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050 www.debian.org