SB2017082501 - Denial of service in Xen
Published: August 25, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017082501
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15596)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker on guest system to cause DoS condition on the host system.The weakness exists due to improper memory allocation. A local attacker can trigger a flaw in the add-to-physmap function, prevent use of a physical CPU and cause the application on the host system to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.