CVE-2017-17044
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.
Affected configurations
References
www.securityfocus.com/bid/102008
www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129
www.securityfocus.com/bid/105954
www.securitytracker.com/id/1039878
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138
xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.html
Related
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%