CVE-2017-10914

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2017-06-20
CWE:
CWE-362
Bugzilla:
1458872: CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914 xsa218 xen: Races in the grant table unmap code (XSA-218)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.

Find out more about CVE-2017-10914 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 8.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jann Horn (Google) as the original reporter.

External References

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