Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode.
Published: 2017-12-12
Score: 7.8 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-1549-1 xen security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4112-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8721 An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:32.233Z

Reserved: 2017-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17563

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-12T23:29:00.300

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

Link: CVE-2017-17563

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-12-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17563 - Bugzilla

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