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CVE-2017-8904

Date: May 11, 2017

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8904
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8904
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98428
https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8904
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038387
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-8904

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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