CVE-2017-15596
6.0
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.08%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-15596
To remediate CVE-2017-15596, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/xen—upgrade to 4.6.6-r2 or later
- Debian/xen—upgrade to 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 or later
Is CVE-2017-15596 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.6.6-r2
- from 0, < 4.8.1-1+deb9u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |