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CVE-2017-17563
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-12T23:29:00.300 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:11:16.183

Summary

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode.

Affected products

xen — xen

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References

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