CVE-2017-14316 Information

Description

A parameter verification issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x. The function alloc_heap_pages allows callers to specify the first NUMA node that should be used for allocations through the memflags parameter; the node is extracted using the MEMF_get_node macro. While the function checks to see if the special constant NUMA_NO_NODE is specified it otherwise does not handle the case where node = MAX_NUMNODES. This allows an out-of-bounds access to an internal array.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100818 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039348 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-231.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX227185 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8