Denial of service in Xen - CVE-2017-17566

Vulnerability identifier: #VU10613

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17566

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Adjecent network

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Xen Project

Affected software:
Xen

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper auxiliary page mapping. A remote attacker can cause the system to crash.

Install update from vendor's website.

• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-248.html