CVE-2017-17044
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102008
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105954
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039878
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17044.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17044
CWEs
CWE-754 CWE-755 CWE-835
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.