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    CVE-2017-7228

    An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.

    Published:Apr 4, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Apr 4, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.01043
    CVSS Score:8.2

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Xen
    Product
    Xen

    Exploits

    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41870

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-100 Overflow Buffers

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    References

    http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/04/3
    http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97375
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038223
    http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html
    https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-029-2017.txt
    https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/pandavirtualization-exploiting-xen.html
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41870/
    http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/04/3
    http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97375
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038223
    http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html
    https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-029-2017.txt
    https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/pandavirtualization-exploiting-xen.html
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41870/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High