CVE-2017-17044

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.

References

Advisories
More

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039878

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102008

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-8213

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105954

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-28

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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