{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2017-08-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "xen: linux: Fix Xen block IO merge-ability calculation (XSA-229)",
    "id" : "1477656",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477656"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "details" : [ "The xen_biovec_phys_mergeable function in drivers/xen/biomerge.c in Xen might allow local OS guest users to corrupt block device data streams and consequently obtain sensitive memory information, cause a denial of service, or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect block IO merge-ability calculation." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jan H. Schönherr (Amazon) as the original reporter.",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "xen",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12134\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12134\nhttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-229.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2017-12134",
  "csaw" : false
}