PT-2017-14680 · Xen · Xen

Julien Grall · Published 2017-11-28 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-17044

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions prior to 4.10

Description An issue in Xen allows HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop and host OS hang, by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.10, update to version 4.10 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Infinite Loop

Improper Check for Exceptional Conditions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-755

CWE-835

CWE-754

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17044

DLA-1230-1

DLA-1559-1

DSA-4050-1

Affected Products

Xen

References · 20

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17044 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1559-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4050-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-17044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17044 · Security Note
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102129 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1039878 · Note