Description
A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DLA |
DLA-1132-1 | xen security update |
Debian DLA |
DLA-1549-1 | xen security update |
Debian DSA |
DSA-4050-1 | xen security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-5820 | A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.). |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T19:20:41.386Z
Reserved: 2017-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-14317
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-09-12T15:29:00.270
Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
Link: CVE-2017-14317
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DLA
Debian DSA
EUVD