CVE-2017-10916
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-07-05 01:00
Modified
2024-08-05 17:50
Severity ?
Summary
The vCPU context-switch implementation in Xen through 4.8.x improperly interacts with the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) features, which makes it easier for guest OS users to defeat ASLR and other protection mechanisms, aka XSA-220.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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