Medium severity5.6NVD Advisory· Published Sep 12, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-14317
CVE-2017-14317
Description
A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).
Affected products
1Patches
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References
5- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-233.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/100826nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039350nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050nvd
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