CVE-2017-8905 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2017-8905?

CVE-2017-8905 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 11 May 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Xen through 4.6.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles a failsafe callback, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-215.

Weakness: CWE-682

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8905?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2017-8905?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2017-8905 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8905 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-2017-8905, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8905, GHSA-fff9-ccrg-mjcr, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8905.