CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17045
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-28
- 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-416
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.9.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102013 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039879 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.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/CTX230138 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-247.html Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102013 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039879 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.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/CTX230138 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-247.html Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory