CVE-2017-8904

Description

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.

References

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11

https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038387

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98428

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3