CVE-2017-17565

medium

Published 2017-12-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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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

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P.

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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