CVE-2017-10915
critical
CVSS v3
9.0
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.0
Description
The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
93%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10915.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10915
CWEs
CWE-362
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.