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: 2017-10-30T14:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-15597

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-15597

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2017-15597 - Bugzilla