CVE-2017-8903
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-11 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:48
Severity ?
Summary
Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213.
Impacted products
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