CVE-2017-17565 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Xen	Xen

Configuration 1 [-]

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

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/12/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102175
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040771
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-251.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17565
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17565
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4112
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-251.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-12T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:32.395Z

Reserved: 2017-12-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-17565

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-12-12T23:29:00.470

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-17565

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2017-17565 - Bugzilla

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