CVE-2017-10920
N/A
Published: July 5, 2017 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:00 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x mishandles a GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map mapping, when followed by only a GNTMAP_host_map unmapping, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (count mismanagement and memory corruption) or obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-224 bug 1.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-224.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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