CVE-2017-17045

high
Published 2017-11-28 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
8.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
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-2017-17045

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-247.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
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-416

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