CVE-2019-17342

HIGH
7
CVSS Score
Published: October 8, 2019 at 12:03 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:23 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxXen

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Severity
HIGH7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by leveraging a race condition that arose when XENMEM_exchange was introduced.

Affected

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

Xen· Xenwordpress-plugin
95%
v ≤ 4.11.2

Remediation

No guide yet

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

References (5)

x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-287.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQThird Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362

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