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CVE-2017-15596

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (prevent physical CPU usage) because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error.

Affected products

• xen: 4.4.0, 4.4.0-rc1, 4.4.0-rc2, 4.4.0-rc3, 4.4.0-rc4, 4.4.0-rc5 (+67)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-235.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-235.html

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