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CVE-2017-17045
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-28T23:29:00.273 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:10:16.027

Summary

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.

Affected products

xen — xen

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References

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