CVE-2017-12136 Information

Description

Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x through 4.9.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (free list corruption and host crash) or gain privileges on the host via vectors involving maptrack free list handling.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100346 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039175 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-228.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477651 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14 https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8