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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-10922: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-10922: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/04/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/06/2017

Description

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x mishandles MMIO region grant references, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (loss of grant trackability), aka XSA-224 bug 3.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-pvgrub
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-tools

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