CVE-2017-10914 (GCVE-0-2017-10914)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-05 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:50
VLAI
Summary
The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2017-07-04 00:00
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