Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x. Grant copying code made an implication that any grant pin would be accompanied by a suitable page reference. Other portions of code, however, did not match up with that assumption. When such a grant copy operation is being done on a grant of a dying domain, the assumption turns out wrong. A malicious guest administrator can cause hypervisor memory corruption, most likely resulting in host crash and a Denial of Service. Privilege escalation and information leaks cannot be ruled out.
Published: 2017-10-30
Score: 9.1 Critical
EPSS: 2.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1549-1 xen security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4050-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-7049 An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x. Grant copying code made an implication that any grant pin would be accompanied by a suitable page reference. Other portions of code, however, did not match up with that assumption. When such a grant copy operation is being done on a grant of a dying domain, the assumption turns out wrong. A malicious guest administrator can cause hypervisor memory corruption, most likely resulting in host crash and a Denial of Service. Privilege escalation and information leaks cannot be ruled out.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:57:27.292Z

Reserved: 2017-10-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-15597

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-10-30T14:29:00.847

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-15597

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-10-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15597 - Bugzilla

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