CVE-2017-10919 Denial of service in n/a
Guest OS users can crash the Xen hypervisor by mishandling virtual interrupt injection, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-10919?
CVE-2017-10919 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 5 Jul 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Xen through 4.8.x mishandles virtual interrupt injection, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash), aka XSA-223.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10919?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2017-10919?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-10919 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10919 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-10919, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10919, GHSA-rj6j-c835-5x5f, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10919.