CVE-2017-17045

published 2017-11-28

CVE-2017-17045: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of…

Priority P3 39 high 8.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S C C H I H A H

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) 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

nvd v3.0 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 8.8 HIGH

vendor_debian 8.8 HIGH

vendor_redhat 8.8 HIGH

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