CVE-2017-15591

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Published 2017-10-18 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

4.9

VIR risk

6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.5.x through 4.9.x allowing attackers (who control a stub domain kernel or tool stack) to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because of a missing comparison (of range start to range end) within the DMOP map/unmap implementation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

65%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15591

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15591.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-238.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.