CVE-2017-8903
N/A
Published: May 11, 2017 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:27 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-213.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo
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