Memory corruption in Xen - CVE-2017-10922

 

Memory corruption in Xen - CVE-2017-10922

Published: July 13, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7507
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-2017-10922
CWE-ID: CWE-119
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 improper handling of MMIO region grant references by the grant-table feature. A local attacker can trigger loss of grant trackability 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

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10922

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

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