CVE-2017-10914

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362 CWE-415

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 5, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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