PT-2017-13475 · Xen · Xen

Oleksandr Tyshchenko · Published 2017-09-13 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-14431

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 3.3 through 4.8.x

Description A memory leak issue allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service by continually rebooting, resulting in ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption. This occurs because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned.

Recommendations For Xen versions 3.3 through 4.8.x, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

DoS

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-772

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-14431

DLA-1493-1

Affected Products

Xen

References · 10

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14431 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14431 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1493-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-207.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00006.html · Note