ALPINE-CVE-2017-10921

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    ALPINE-CVE-2017-10921

    Published: 5 Jul 2017Last Modified: 15 Jun 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-10921

    Summary:

    Details: The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x does not ensure sufficient type counts for a GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map mapping, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (count mismanagement and memory corruption) or obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-224 bug 2.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-10921

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/xen?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.9.0-r0

    Affected versions

    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