High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-10914
CVE-2017-10914
Description
The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.
AI Insight
LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.
Affected products
7- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%206
< 4.5.5_12-22.18.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.5_12-22.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_21-22.42.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_21-22.42.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.5_12-22.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.5_12-22.18.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.htmlnvdMailing ListVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17nvd
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.