CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15595
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-18
- 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-400
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.9.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867 support.citrix.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050 www.debian.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43014/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-240.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867 support.citrix.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050 www.debian.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43014/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-240.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory