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CVE-2017-10915

critical

Description

The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219.

References

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-07-05

Updated: 2017-11-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical