ALPINE-CVE-2017-10914

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CVE-2017-10914
Published: 05 Jul 2017, 01:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:36

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
32/100
CVSS Score
8.1 HIGH
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Jul 2017, 01:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:36
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•xen

    < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.6.6-r0 | < 4.6.6-r0 | < 4.7.3-r0 | < 4.8.2-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0 | < 4.9.0-r0

References (1)