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SUSE: CVE-2017-12136: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-12136: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/01/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x through 4.9.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (free list corruption and host crash) or gain privileges on the host via vectors involving maptrack free list handling.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:2326-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2327-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2327-2
  • DSA-3969
  • 100346
  • 1039175
  • GLSA-201801-14
  • CVE-2017-12136
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