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 incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode.
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-2017-8722 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 incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:32.379Z

Reserved: 2017-12-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-17564

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-12-12T23:29:00.423

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

Link: CVE-2017-17564

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2017-17564 - Bugzilla

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