vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-8904): xen vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 11, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xen
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