CVE-2017-15593

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-10-12
Bugzilla:
1499822: CVE-2017-15593 xsa242 xen: page type reference leak on x86 (XSA-242)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.

Find out more about CVE-2017-15593 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 6.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jan Beulich (SUSE) as the original reporter.

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