CVE-2017-17564 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00064.

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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/12/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102172
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040770
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-250.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17564
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17564
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4112
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-250.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-12T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:32.379Z

Reserved: 2017-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17564

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-12T23:29:00.423

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

Link: CVE-2017-17564

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-12-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17564 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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