CVE-2017-10914
8.1
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.60%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-10914
To remediate CVE-2017-10914, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/xen—upgrade to 4.9.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 or later
Is CVE-2017-10914 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.9.0-r0
- from 0, < 4.8.1-1+deb9u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |