CVE-2017-15591

Publication date 18 October 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.5.x through 4.9.x allowing attackers (who control a stub domain kernel or tool stack) to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because of a missing comparison (of range start to range end) within the DMOP map/unmap implementation.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xen	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.9.2-0ubuntu1
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.6.4-0ubuntu1.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H