CVE-2017-10918

Publication date 5 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

10.0 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Xen through 4.8.x does not validate memory allocations during certain P2M operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-222.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xen 17.04 zesty
Fixed 4.8.0-1ubuntu2.2
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 4.7.2-0ubuntu1.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.6.5-0ubuntu1.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.12

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 10.0 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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