CVE-2017-8905

Description

Xen through 4.6.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles a failsafe callback, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-215.

References

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-215.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11

https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038388

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98436

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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