CVE-2017-14317

CVE Details

Release Date:	2017-09-12
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (akacxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.7
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle VM version 3.2 (xen)	OVMSA-2017-0159	2017-10-24
Oracle VM version 3.3 (xen)	OVMSA-2017-0158	2017-10-24
Oracle VM version 3.4 (xen)	OVMSA-2017-0157	2017-10-24