xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86:
insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86:
PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220] stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231)

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Xen through 4.8.x mishandles virtual interrupt injection, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of     service (hypervisor crash), aka XSA-223. (CVE-2017-10919)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86:
insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86:
PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231) stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor :

  - CVE-2017-10912     Jann Horn discovered that incorrectly handling of page     transfers might result in privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2017-10913 / CVE-2017-10914     Jann Horn discovered that race conditions in grant     handling might result in information leaks or privilege     escalation.

  - CVE-2017-10915     Andrew Cooper discovered that incorrect reference     counting with shadow paging might result in privilege     escalation.

  - CVE-2017-10916     Andrew Cooper discovered an information leak in the     handling of the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and     Protection Key (PKU) CPU features. This only affects     Debian stretch.

  - CVE-2017-10917     Ankur Arora discovered a NULL pointer dereference in     event polling, resulting in denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-10918     Julien Grall discovered that incorrect error handling in     physical-to-machine memory mappings may result in     privilege escalation, denial of service or an     information leak.

  - CVE-2017-10919     Julien Grall discovered that incorrect handling of     virtual interrupt injection on ARM systems may result in     denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-10920 / CVE-2017-10921 / CVE-2017-10922     Jan Beulich discovered multiple places where reference     counting on grant table operations was incorrect,     resulting in potential privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2017-12135     Jan Beulich found multiple problems in the handling of     transitive grants which could result in denial of     service and potentially privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2017-12136     Ian Jackson discovered that race conditions in the     allocator for grant mappings may result in denial of     service or privilege escalation. This only affects     Debian stretch.

  - CVE-2017-12137     Andrew Cooper discovered that incorrect validation of     grants may result in privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2017-12855     Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect grant status     handling, thus incorrectly informing the guest that the     grant is no longer in use.

  - XSA-235 (no CVE yet)

    Wei Liu discovered that incorrect locking of     add-to-physmap operations on ARM may result in denial of     service.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
101028	Fedora 25 : xen (2017-c3149b5fcb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	6/23/2017	12/15/2025	critical
101183	Fedora 24 : xen (2017-b3bdaf58bc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/3/2017	12/12/2025	critical
220205	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-10919	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	1/28/2026	medium
101638	Fedora 26 : xen (2017-5c6a9b07a3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/17/2017	12/10/2025	critical
103146	Debian DSA-3969-1 : xen - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	9/13/2017	11/21/2025	critical

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