CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17564
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-388
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.9.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/12/3 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102172 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040770 www.securitytracker.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096 support.citrix.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4112 www.debian.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-250.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/12/3 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102172 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040770 www.securitytracker.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096 support.citrix.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4112 www.debian.org
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-250.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory