CVE-2017-10921

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% 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-119

Description

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x does not ensure sufficient type counts for a GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map mapping, 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 2.

Affected products

xen: through 4.8.1

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038734
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-224.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038734
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-224.html

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