CVE-2017-12136 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2017-12136

Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x...

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x through 4.9.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (free list corruption and host crash) or gain privileges on the host via vectors involving maptrack free list handling.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

xen, xenserver, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.3, 4.6.4, 4.6.5, 4.6.6, 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.7.3, 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.9.0, 6.0.2, 6.2.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 9.0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 24th, 2017
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.