CVE-2017-17045
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.07%Published: 11/28/2017Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-17045DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17045
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.7.3-r2
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
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 |