CVE-2017-10915

Published: Jul 5, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

9.0

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 2.2 / Impact: 6.0

Source: NVD

Description

The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219.

Affected (1)

Products: Xen: Xen

Xen

1 product

Xen

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Xen Xen	Up to 4.8.1

Related CWEs

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (10)

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListMitigationVendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969