Out-of-bounds Read Affecting xen package, versions <4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-XEN-367119
  • published12 Sept 2017
  • disclosed12 Sept 2017

Introduced: 12 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14316  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable xen to version 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

A parameter verification issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x. The function alloc_heap_pages allows callers to specify the first NUMA node that should be used for allocations through the memflags parameter; the node is extracted using the MEMF_get_node macro. While the function checks to see if the special constant NUMA_NO_NODE is specified, it otherwise does not handle the case where node &gt;= MAX_NUMNODES. This allows an out-of-bounds access to an internal array.