CVE-2017-15590 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because MSI mapping was mishandled.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00071.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Xen	Xen

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101500
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-237.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15590
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15590
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-237.html

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-10-18T08:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:57:27.055Z

Reserved: 2017-10-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-15590

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-18T08:29:00.420

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-15590

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15590 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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