Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-XEN-658116
  • published12 Dec 2017
  • disclosed12 Dec 2017

Introduced: 12 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17563  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode.