High severity8.2NVD Advisory· Published Apr 4, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-7228
CVE-2017-7228
Description
An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
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Affected products
15- osv-coords14 versionspkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg: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%20SP2pkg: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%20SP2pkg: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%20Manager%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%205
< 4.7.2_02-36.1+ 13 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.2_02-36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_16-54.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.2_02-36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_16-22.36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_16-54.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_16-22.36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.2_02-36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_16-54.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.2_02-36.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_21-38.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/04/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97375nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/pandavirtualization-exploiting-xen.htmlnvdTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038223nvd
- github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-029-2017.txtnvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41870/nvd
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