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CVE-2017-12136

Published: Aug 24, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941

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http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-228.html

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vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20170815 Xen Security Advisory 228 (CVE-2017-12136) - grant_table: Race conditions with maptrack free list handling

mailing-list

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477651

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vendor-advisory

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vdb-entry

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