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CVE-2017-17044
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.44%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 62% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181030 [SECURITY] [DLA 1559-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 102129 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-246.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180105 [SECURITY] [DLA 1230-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 102008 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1039878 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201801-14 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 105954 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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