CVE-2017-15591 (NVD)

2017-10-18

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.5.x through 4.9.x allowing attackers (who control a stub domain kernel or tool stack) to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because of a missing comparison (of range start to range end) within the DMOP map/unmap implementation.

Products Xen
Type Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-238.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14