CVE-2017-15592
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.10%xen - security update
Published: 10/18/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings are mishandled for translated guests.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.9.0-r6
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.4.4lts3-0+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |