CVE-2017-10922

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

7.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x mishandles MMIO region grant references, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (loss of grant trackability), aka XSA-224 bug 3.

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-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (10)

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038734

Source: cve@mitre.org

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-224.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

PatchVendor Advisory

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