Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-11T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:48:22.622Z

Reserved: 2017-05-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8904

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-11T19:29:00.273

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

Link: CVE-2017-8904

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8904 - Bugzilla