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Debian: CVE-2017-10916: xen -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 4, 2017
Added
Sep 13, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The vCPU context-switch implementation in Xen through 4.8.x improperly interacts with the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) features, which makes it easier for guest OS users to defeat ASLR and other protection mechanisms, aka XSA-220.

Solution

debian-upgrade-xen
Title
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