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CVE-2017-10914

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.

Affected products

• xen: through 4.8.1

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.html

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