vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-17564): xen vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 12, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode.

Solution(s)

no-fix-ubuntu-packageubuntu-upgrade-xen
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