CVE-2017-17044

MEDIUM

Xen <4.9.x - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (9)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102008

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

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039878

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html

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

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138

[Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105954

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

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 15.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-755 CWE-754 CWE-835

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

xen/xen < 4.9.1

Timeline

Published Nov 28, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026