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CVE-2017-8903

Published: May 11, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8903
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xen Xen 4.8.0 (including) 4.8.0 (including)
Xen Xen 4.8.1 (including) 4.8.1 (including)

References

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