CVE-2017-14317

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    CVE-2017-14317

    Published: 12 Sept 2017Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100826, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039350, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050, http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-233.html

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