CVE-2017-15592

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-15592  

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings are mishandled for translated guests.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings are mishandled for translated guests.

Find out more about CVE-2017-15592 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 6.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Cooper (Citrix) as the original reporter.

External References