Description
Xen through 4.8.x does not validate the port numbers of polled event channel ports, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information, aka XSA-221.
Published: 2017-07-05
Score: 9.1 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3969-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-2555 Xen through 4.8.x does not validate the port numbers of polled event channel ports, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information, aka XSA-221.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:50:12.730Z

Reserved: 2017-07-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-10917

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-05T01:29:00.737

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-10917

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-06-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-10917 - Bugzilla

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