CVE-2019-17342 — Race Condition in XEN

CWE-362 — Race ConditionCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.32%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
XENDebian XENDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 8
Latest updateMay 24

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by leveraging a race condition that arose when XENMEM_exchange was introduced.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/xen< xen 4.11.1+92-g6c33308a8d-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianxen/xen< 4.11.1+92-g6c33308a8d-1+3
▶NVDxen/xen4.11.2

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-8544-f9xf-mg48: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-17342: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2019-10-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
xen: xsa287: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline↗2019-03-05
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Debian
CVE-2019-17342: xen - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to ...↗2019
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17342 xen: xsa287: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline↗2019-02-20
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