CVE-2017-17564 (GCVE-0-2017-17564)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-12 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:51
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2017-12-12 00:00
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