CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-17347

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-10-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-10-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because a guest can manipulate its virtualised %cr4 in a way that is incompatible with Linux (and possibly other guest kernels).

Affected configurations

• xen xen (>= 4.1.0 <= 4.11.2) • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References