CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7228
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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-129
Description
An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
Affected configurations
• xen xen
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/04/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97375 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038223 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-029-2017.txt github.com
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/pandavirtualization-exploiting-xen.html Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41870/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/04/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97375 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038223 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-029-2017.txt github.com
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/pandavirtualization-exploiting-xen.html Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41870/ www.exploit-db.com