Xen XSA-222 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Xen is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to to gain elevated privileges.

Information

Bugtraq ID: 99161
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2017-10918

Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 20 2017 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 05 2017 07:05AM
Credit: Julien Grall of ARM.
Vulnerable: Xen Xen 4.8
Xen Xen 4.7
Xen Xen 4.6
Xen Xen 4.0.4
Xen Xen 4.0.1
Xen Xen 4.6.3
Xen Xen 4.5.3
Xen Xen 4.5.0
Xen Xen 4.4.1
Xen Xen 4.3
Xen Xen 4.2.3
Xen Xen 4.2.2
Xen Xen 4.2.1
Xen Xen 4.2.0
Xen Xen 4.2
Xen Xen 4.1.6.1
Xen Xen 4.1.5
Xen Xen 4.1.4
Xen Xen 4.1.3
Xen Xen 4.1.2
Xen Xen 4.1.1
Xen Xen 4.1.0
Xen Xen 4.1
Xen Xen 4.0.3
Xen Xen 4.0.2
Xen Xen 4.0.0
Xen Xen 4.0
Xen Xen 3.4.4
Xen Xen 3.4.3
Xen Xen 3.4.2
Xen Xen 3.4.1
Xen Xen 3.4.0
Xen Xen 3.3.2
Xen Xen 3.3.1
Xen Xen 3.3.0
Xen Xen 3.3
Xen Xen 3.2.3
Xen Xen 3.2.2
Xen Xen 3.2.1
Xen Xen 3.2

Not Vulnerable:

Exploit

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at:http://.

References:

• Xen Homepage (XenSource )
  
• Xen Security Advisory 222 - stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checkin (Seclists.org)
  
• XSA-222 (Xen)
  

Source: www.securityfocus.com