Description
Memory leak in Xen 3.3 through 4.8.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption) by continually rebooting, because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned, aka XSA-207.
Published: 2017-09-13
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1493-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-5934 Memory leak in Xen 3.3 through 4.8.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption) by continually rebooting, because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned, aka XSA-207.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00046}

epss

{'score': 0.00127}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:27:40.593Z

Reserved: 2017-09-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-14431

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-13T22:29:00.253

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

Link: CVE-2017-14431

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-02-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-14431 - Bugzilla

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