CVE-2017-17044
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
4.9
VIR risk
6.5
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17044
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17044.html
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102008
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105954
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039878
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17044.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17044
CWEs
CWE-754 CWE-755 CWE-835
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.