CVE-2017-12136

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x through 4.9.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (free list corruption and host crash) or gain privileges on the host via vectors involving maptrack free list handling.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

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

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100346Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039175Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-228.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477651Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14Third Party Advisory
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100346Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039175Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-228.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477651Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14Third Party Advisory
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 24, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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