CVE-2017-15592

HIGH

Xen < 4.9.0 - Exposure to Wrong Actor

Title source: rule

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings are mishandled for translated guests.

References (10)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101513

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867

[Vendor Advisory] https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138

[Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-243.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0010

EPSS Percentile 28.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-668

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

xen/xen < 4.9.0

Timeline

Published Oct 18, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026