CVE-2017-14317

medium
Published 2017-09-12 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.6

Description

A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
56%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
debian debianforkyfixed4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
debian debiansidfixed4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1

References

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.