CVE-2017-15594
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.07%Published: 10/18/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 SVM PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or gain privileges because IDT settings are mishandled during CPU hotplugging.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.9.0-r6
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |