PT-2017-18612 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Jann Horn · Published 2017-05-09 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-8905

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions prior to 4.7

Description The issue is related to the mishandling of a failsafe callback on 64-bit platforms, which could potentially allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS.

Recommendations For Xen versions prior to 4.7, update to version 4.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-682

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8905

DLA-964-1

DSA-3847-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1715-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1770-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 59

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3847-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1770-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8905 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8905 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-8905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1715-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-215.html · Vendor Advisory