Medium severity5.6NVD Advisory· Published Sep 12, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 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.).
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Affected products
21- Range: <=4.9.x
- osv-coords18 versionspkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg: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%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%206
< 4.7.3_04-43.12.1+ 17 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.3_04-43.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.0_12-3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-45.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-45.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_22-61.9.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.5_16-22.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.3_04-43.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.0_12-3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_22-22.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_22-61.9.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_22-22.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.5_16-22.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.3_04-43.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.0_12-3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_22-61.9.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.3_04-43.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.0_12-3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.5_16-22.28.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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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