Privilege escalation in Xen - CVE-2017-10914
Published: June 21, 2017 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7140
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10914
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to memory leak. A local attacker can probably cause reference counts to leak, obtain potentially sensitive data or gain host privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in privilege escalation.
The weakness exists due to memory leak. A local attacker can probably cause reference counts to leak, obtain potentially sensitive data or gain host privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in privilege escalation.
Affected software
Xen
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
xen
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
xen
How to mitigate CVE-2017-10914
Install update from vendor's website.
xen - addressed in versions 4.6.5-7.fc24, 4.7.2-7.fc25, 4.8.1-4.fc26