vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-10916): xen vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 5, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

The vCPU context-switch implementation in Xen through 4.8.x improperly interacts with the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) features, which makes it easier for guest OS users to defeat ASLR and other protection mechanisms, aka XSA-220.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xen
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