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CVE-2017-8904

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
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8904
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the contains segment descriptors property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

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)
Xen Ubuntu devel *
Xen Ubuntu trusty *
Xen Ubuntu xenial *
Xen Ubuntu yakkety *
Xen Ubuntu zesty *

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