PT-2017-11605 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Andrew Cooper · Published 2017-07-05 · Updated 2017-11-04 · CVE-2017-10915

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.0

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions prior to 4.9

Description The issue arises from the mismanagement of page references by the shadow-paging feature, leading to a race condition. This condition allows users of the guest OS to gain Xen privileges.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.9, update to version 4.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-10915

DLA-1132-1

DSA-3969-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1826-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 55

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10915 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3969-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-10915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10915 · Security Note