CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17044

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-11-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-754, CWE-755, CWE-835

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.

Affected configurations

• xen xen (<= 4.9.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions weakness
  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References