Critical severity10.0NVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-10920

Description

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x mishandles a GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map mapping, when followed by only a GNTMAP_host_map unmapping, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (count mismanagement and memory corruption) or obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-224 bug 1.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-224.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1038734nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17nvd

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