CVE-2017-17565

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P.

References

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-251.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4112

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040771

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102175

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/12/5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-12

Updated: 2018-10-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.6

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