Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-10918

critical

CVE-2017-10918

xen: stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking (XSA-222)

Published Modified CWE 20
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD10.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Xen through 4.8.x does not validate memory allocations during certain P2M operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-222.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.11xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.12xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.13xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.14xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.15xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.16xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.17xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.18xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.19xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.20xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.21xen4.9.0-r0
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SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.11xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.12xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.13xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.14xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.15xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.16xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.17xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.18xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.19xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.20xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.21xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.22xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.23xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.24xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.3xen4.6.6-r0
alpine 3.4xen4.6.6-r0
alpine 3.5xen4.7.3-r0
alpine 3.6xen4.8.2-r0
alpine 3.7xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.8xen4.9.0-r0
alpine 3.9xen4.9.0-r0
alpine edgexen4.9.0-r0
debian 11xen4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian 12xen4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian 13xen4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian 14xen4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian 7xen4.1.6.lts1-9
debian 8xen4.4.1-9+deb8u10
debian 9xen4.8.1-1+deb9u3
echoxen4.8.1-1+deb9u3
ubuntu 14.04xen4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.12
ubuntu 16.04xen4.6.5-0ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 16.04-ESMxen4.6.5-0ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 16.10xen4.7.2-0ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 17.04xen4.8.0-1ubuntu2.2

References

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