CVE-2017-10917

CriticalCVSS 9.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Xen through 4.8.x does not validate the port numbers of polled event channel ports, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information, aka XSA-221.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99157
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038731
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-221.htmlMailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99157
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038731
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-221.htmlMailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

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

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