Race condition in Xen - CVE-2017-10914
Published: July 13, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7501
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10914
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS conditions.
The weakness exists due to a race condition in the grant-table feature. A local attacker can trigger double free error and memory consumption and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to a race condition in the grant-table feature. A local attacker can trigger double free error and memory consumption and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Affected software
Xen
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
xen (Alpine package)
xen
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
xen (Alpine package)
xen
How to mitigate CVE-2017-10914
Install update from vendor's website.
xen (Alpine package) - update to 4.8.2-r0
xen - addressed in versions 4.6.5-7.fc24, 4.7.2-7.fc25, 4.8.1-4.fc26
xen - addressed in versions 4.6.5-7.fc24, 4.7.2-7.fc25, 4.8.1-4.fc26