CVE-2017-10914

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10914
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Modified
Published: 05 Jul 2017, 01:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 17:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
33/100
CVSS Score
8.1 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.61% LOW
2% probability +1.01%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Jul 2017, 01:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 17:50
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
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.61%• Percentile: 75%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-362•Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

    The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

  • CWE-415•Double Free

    The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Systems

  • debian•xen

    < 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 | < 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 | < 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 | < 4.8.1-1+deb9u3

  • xen•xen

    ≤ 4.8.1

References (7)