CVE-2017-10916
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.39%Published: 7/5/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-10916DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10916
Description
The vCPU context-switch implementation in Xen through 4.8.x improperly interacts with the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) features, which makes it easier for guest OS users to defeat ASLR and other protection mechanisms, aka XSA-220.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.9.0-r0
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.1-1+deb9u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |