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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-15594): xen vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 18, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 SVM PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or gain privileges because IDT settings are mishandled during CPU hotplugging.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xen
Title
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