CVE-2017-17045

high
Published 2017-11-28 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed 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

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.