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CVE-2017-7228 (GCVE-0-2017-7228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-04 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:56
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Summary
An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-04-04 00:00
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