CVE-2017-7228

Published Apr 4, 2017

Last updated 5 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
8.2
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
1.5
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.2
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-129

Configurations