CVE-2017-15596 in Xen

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 10/18/2017
• Disclosure: 10/18/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-107986
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-400 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.6
• EPSS: 0.00080
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15596
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15596
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-15596/