vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-17045: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 28, 2017
Added
Jan 15, 2018
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xengentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-tools
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