CVE-2017-10915 — Race Condition in XEN

CWE-362 — Race Condition7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
XENDebian XEN
Timeline
PublishedJul 5
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/xen< xen 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 (bookworm)
▶Debianxen/xen< 4.8.1-1+deb9u3+3
▶NVDxen/xen4.8.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-j89r-h362-8fxj: The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-10915: The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4↗2017-07-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
xen: x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation (XSA-219)↗2017-06-20
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Debian
CVE-2017-10915: xen - The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and co...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-10911 CVE-2017-10912 CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914 CVE-2017-10915 CVE-2017-10916 CVE-2017-10918 CVE-2017-10919 CVE-2017-10920 CVE-2017-10921 CVE-2017-10922 CVE-2017-10923 xen: various flaws [↗2017-06-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-10915 xsa219 xen: x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation (XSA-219)↗2017-06-05
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