CVE-2017-17045

N/A
Published: November 28, 2017 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Xen· Xenwordpress-plugin
95%
v ≤ 4.9.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (8)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102013
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039879
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingMitigationPatchVendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-247.html

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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