CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-17566

Published: Dec 12, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xen Xen * 4.9.1 (including)
Xen Ubuntu artful *
Xen Ubuntu bionic *
Xen Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Xen Ubuntu trusty *
Xen Ubuntu upstream *
Xen Ubuntu xenial *
Xen Ubuntu zesty *

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