CVE-2017-17566 — XEN vulnerability

7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 71.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
XENDebian XEN
Timeline
PublishedDec 12
Latest updateMay 13

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) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.1 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/xen< xen 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5 (bookworm)
▶Debianxen/xen< 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5+3
▶NVDxen/xen4.9.1

Patches

Patch: xenbits.xen.org ↗Patch: xenbits.xen.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f7fj-gg64-5639: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-17566: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2017-12-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
xen: x86 PV guests may gain access to internally used pages (XSA-248)↗2017-12-12
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Debian
CVE-2017-17566: xen - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to cause...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17563 CVE-2017-17564 CVE-2017-17565 CVE-2017-17566 xen: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-12-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17566 xsa248 xen: x86 PV guests may gain access to internally used pages (XSA-248)↗2017-11-29
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