CVE-2017-8904

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 11, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: May 11, 2017

Description

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

GLSA-201705-11vendor-advisory
98428vdb-entry
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html
https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/
1038387vdb-entry

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