CVE-2017-15595

Published: Oct 18, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

8.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.0 / Impact: 6.0

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Xen: Xen

Xen

1 product

Xen

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Xen Xen	Up to 4.9.0

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 (14)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43014/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-240.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

MitigationPatchVendor Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html