CVE-2017-17044: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the…

PriorityP422medium6.5CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRLUINSCCNINAH

EPSS

0.44%

35.9th percentile

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	xen	< xen 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 (bookworm)	xen 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 (bookworm)
xen	xen	<= 4.9.1	—
xen	xen	>= 0 < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1	4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
xen	xen	>= 0 < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1	4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
xen	xen	>= 0 < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1	4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
xen	xen	>= 0 < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1	4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM

vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM

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