Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-10917
CVE-2017-10917
Description
Xen through 4.8.x does not validate the port numbers of polled event channel ports, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information, aka XSA-221.
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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
5- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-221.htmlnvdMailing ListMitigationThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/99157nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038731nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03nvd
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