vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17044: xen -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 28, 2017
Added
Dec 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.

Solution

debian-upgrade-xen
Title
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