CVE-2017-10914 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00603.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Xen	Xen

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10914
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10914
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-05T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:50:12.763Z

Reserved: 2017-07-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-10914

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-05T01:29:00.643

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-10914

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-06-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-10914 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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