CVE-2017-8903
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.37%Published: 5/11/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-8903DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8903
Description
Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.1-r2
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.1-1+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 |