CVE-2017-15593 (GCVE-0-2017-15593)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-10-18 08:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:57
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
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