CVE-2017-10915

9.0 CRITICAL

Published: July 05, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Mitigation Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969