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.
Published: 2017-11-28
Score: 8.8 High
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-1230-1 xen security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1559-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8214 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:43:59.449Z

Reserved: 2017-11-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17045

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-28T23:29:00.273

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

Link: CVE-2017-17045

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17045 - Bugzilla

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