vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-8904: xen -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 11, 2017
Added
May 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

Solution

debian-upgrade-xen
Title
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