Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xen package, versions [4.8.0,4.8.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383909
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 May 2017

CVE-2017-8904  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

CVSS Scores

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