FKIE_CVE-2017-10914

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-07-05 01:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:00
Severity
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
cve@mitre.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xen xen *
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