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CVE-2017-15596

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
18/10/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.00 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
6.00
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.2:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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