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CVE-2017-15595 (GCVE-0-2017-15595)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-18 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:57
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-240.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43014/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2017-10-18 00:00
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