CVE-2017-15588 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2017-15588?

CVE-2017-15588 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 18 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS because of a race condition that can cause a stale TLB entry.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15588?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2017-15588?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-15588 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15588 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen

• CVE-2017-10912 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10918 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10920 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10921 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-27466 Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface Critical 9.8

All Xen Xen vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-15588, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15588, GHSA-5chc-m6j7-c756, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15588.