CVE-2017-15596 (NVD)

2017-10-18

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (prevent physical CPU usage) because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error.

Products Xen
Type Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links • http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-235.html