Description
An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
Published: 2017-04-04
Score: 8.2 High
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-907-1 xen security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3847-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16263 An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:56:36.021Z

Reserved: 2017-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7228

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-04-04T14:59:00.243

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

Link: CVE-2017-7228

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-04-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7228 - Bugzilla

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