CVE-2017-8904 - Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (a

CVE-2017-8904

Summary

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98428
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038387
https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	6.8 (as of 03-10-2019 - 00:03)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
LOCAL	LOW	SINGLE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
COMPLETE	COMPLETE	COMPLETE

cvss-vector via4

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

refmap via4

bid	98428
confirm	https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/ https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html
gentoo	GLSA-201705-11
sectrack	1038387

Last major update

03-10-2019 - 00:03

Published

11-05-2017 - 19:29

Last modified

03-10-2019 - 00:03