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CVE-2017-15595

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of...

8.8 HighPublic exploitFix available

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.56%Down 7.1 points since Apr 14, 2021
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What each source reports

NVD Score used 8.8

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
CVE-2017-15595
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.2 HighAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
CVE-2017-15595
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-7047 No score

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
EUVD-2017-7047
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-m9p9-mh4f-qxmq 8.8

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of...

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
GHSA-m9p9-mh4f-qxmq
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2017-15595 8.8

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2017-15595
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 8.8

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
CVE-2017-15595
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-15595 8.8

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15595
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-15595 8.8

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15595
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2812-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1059777)
  • CVE-2017-15593: Missing cleanup in the page type system allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS (XSA-242 bsc#1061084)
  • CVE-2017-15592: A problem in the shadow pagetable code allowed a malicious or buggy HVM guest to cause DoS or cause hypervisor memory corruption potentially allowing the guest to escalate its privilege (XSA-243 bsc#1061086)
  • CVE-2017-15594: Problematic handling of the selector fields in the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) allowed a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest to escalate its privileges or cause DoS (XSA-244 bsc#1061087)
  • CVE-2017-15589: Intercepted I/O write operations with less than a full machine word's worth of data were not properly handled, which allowed a malicious unprivileged x86 HVM guest to obtain sensitive information from the host or other guests (XSA-239 bsc#1061080)
  • CVE-2017-15595: In certain configurations of linear page tables a stack overflow might have occured that allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-240 bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-15588: Under certain conditions x86 PV guests could have caused the hypervisor to miss a necessary TLB flush for a page. This allowed a malicious x86 PV guest to access all of system memory, allowing for privilege escalation, DoS, and information leaks (XSA-241 bsc#1061082)
  • CVE-2017-15590: Multiple issues existed with the setup of PCI MSI interrupts that allowed a malicious or buggy guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-237 bsc#1061076)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2812-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2815-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1059777)
  • CVE-2017-15593: Missing cleanup in the page type system allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS (XSA-242 bsc#1061084)
  • CVE-2017-15592: A problem in the shadow pagetable code allowed a malicious or buggy HVM guest to cause DoS or cause hypervisor memory corruption potentially allowing the guest to escalate its privilege (XSA-243 bsc#1061086)
  • CVE-2017-15594: Problematic handling of the selector fields in the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) allowed a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest to escalate its privileges or cause DoS (XSA-244 bsc#1061087)
  • CVE-2017-15589: Intercepted I/O write operations with less than a full machine word's worth of data were not properly handled, which allowed a malicious unprivileged x86 HVM guest to obtain sensitive information from the host or other guests (XSA-239 bsc#1061080)
  • CVE-2017-15595: In certain configurations of linear page tables a stack overflow might have occured that allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-240 bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-15588: Under certain conditions x86 PV guests could have caused the hypervisor to miss a necessary TLB flush for a page. This allowed a malicious x86 PV guest to access all of system memory, allowing for privilege escalation, DoS, and information leaks (XSA-241 bsc#1061082)
  • CVE-2017-15590: Multiple issues existed with the setup of PCI MSI interrupts that allowed a malicious or buggy guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-237 bsc#1061076)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2815-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2856-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1059777)
  • CVE-2017-15593: Missing cleanup in the page type system allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS (XSA-242 bsc#1061084)
  • CVE-2017-15592: A problem in the shadow pagetable code allowed a malicious or buggy HVM guest to cause DoS or cause hypervisor memory corruption potentially allowing the guest to escalate its privilege (XSA-243 bsc#1061086)
  • CVE-2017-15594: Problematic handling of the selector fields in the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) allowed a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest to escalate its privileges or cause DoS (XSA-244 bsc#1061087)
  • CVE-2017-15589: Intercepted I/O write operations with less than a full machine word's worth of data were not properly handled, which allowed a malicious unprivileged x86 HVM guest to obtain sensitive information from the host or other guests (XSA-239 bsc#1061080)
  • CVE-2017-15595: In certain configurations of linear page tables a stack overflow might have occured that allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-240 bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-15588: Under certain conditions x86 PV guests could have caused the hypervisor to miss a necessary TLB flush for a page. This allowed a malicious x86 PV guest to access all of system memory, allowing for privilege escalation, DoS, and information leaks (XSA-241 bsc#1061082)
  • CVE-2017-15590: Multiple issues existed with the setup of PCI MSI interrupts that allowed a malicious or buggy guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-237 bsc#1061076)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2856-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2864-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1059777)
  • CVE-2017-15593: Missing cleanup in the page type system allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS (XSA-242 bsc#1061084)
  • CVE-2017-15592: A problem in the shadow pagetable code allowed a malicious or buggy HVM guest to cause DoS or cause hypervisor memory corruption potentially allowing the guest to escalate its privilege (XSA-243 bsc#1061086)
  • CVE-2017-15594: Problematic handling of the selector fields in the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) allowed a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest to escalate its privileges or cause DoS (XSA-244 bsc#1061087)
  • CVE-2017-15591: Missing checks in the handling of DMOPs allowed malicious or buggy stub domain kernels or tool stacks otherwise living outside of Domain0 to cause a DoS (XSA-238 bsc#1061077)
  • CVE-2017-15589: Intercepted I/O write operations with less than a full machine word's worth of data were not properly handled, which allowed a malicious unprivileged x86 HVM guest to obtain sensitive information from the host or other guests (XSA-239 bsc#1061080)
  • CVE-2017-15595: In certain configurations of linear page tables a stack overflow might have occured that allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-240 bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-15588: Under certain conditions x86 PV guests could have caused the hypervisor to miss a necessary TLB flush for a page. This allowed a malicious x86 PV guest to access all of system memory, allowing for privilege escalation, DoS, and information leaks (XSA-241 bsc#1061082)
  • CVE-2017-15590: Multiple issues existed with the setup of PCI MSI interrupts that allowed a malicious or buggy guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-237 bsc#1061076)

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1057358: Fixed boot when secure boot is enabled
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2864-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2873-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1059777)
  • CVE-2017-15593: Missing cleanup in the page type system allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS (XSA-242 bsc#1061084)
  • CVE-2017-15592: A problem in the shadow pagetable code allowed a malicious or buggy HVM guest to cause DoS or cause hypervisor memory corruption potentially allowing the guest to escalate its privilege (XSA-243 bsc#1061086)
  • CVE-2017-15594: Problematic handling of the selector fields in the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) allowed a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest to escalate its privileges or cause DoS (XSA-244 bsc#1061087)
  • CVE-2017-15591: Missing checks in the handling of DMOPs allowed malicious or buggy stub domain kernels or tool stacks otherwise living outside of Domain0 to cause a DoS (XSA-238 bsc#1061077)
  • CVE-2017-15589: Intercepted I/O write operations with less than a full machine word's worth of data were not properly handled, which allowed a malicious unprivileged x86 HVM guest to obtain sensitive information from the host or other guests (XSA-239 bsc#1061080)
  • CVE-2017-15595: In certain configurations of linear page tables a stack overflow might have occured that allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-240 bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-15588: Under certain conditions x86 PV guests could have caused the hypervisor to miss a necessary TLB flush for a page. This allowed a malicious x86 PV guest to access all of system memory, allowing for privilege escalation, DoS, and information leaks (XSA-241 bsc#1061082)
  • CVE-2017-15590: Multiple issues existed with the setup of PCI MSI interrupts that allowed a malicious or buggy guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-237 bsc#1061076)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2873-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:3212-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1068187: Failure to recognize errors in the Populate on Demand (PoD) code allowed for DoS (XSA-246)
  • bsc#1068191: Missing p2m error checking in PoD code allowed unprivileged guests to retain a writable mapping of freed memory leading to information leaks, privilege escalation or DoS (XSA-247).
  • CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation (bsc#1063123)
  • CVE-2017-15597: A grant copy operation being done on a grant of a dying domain allowed a malicious guest administrator to corrupt hypervisor memory, allowing for DoS or potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (bsc#1061075).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081).
  • CVE-2017-15592: x86 HVM guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings were mishandled for translated guests (bsc#1061086).
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:3212-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:3236-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1068187: Failure to recognize errors in the Populate on Demand (PoD) code allowed for DoS (XSA-246)
  • bsc#1068191: Missing p2m error checking in PoD code allowed unprivileged guests to retain a writable mapping of freed memory leading to information leaks, privilege escalation or DoS (XSA-247).
  • CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation (bsc#1063123)
  • CVE-2017-15597: A grant copy operation being done on a grant of a dying domain allowed a malicious guest administrator to corrupt hypervisor memory, allowing for DoS or potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (bsc#1061075).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081).
  • CVE-2017-15592: x86 HVM guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings were mishandled for translated guests (bsc#1061086).
  • CVE-2017-13672: The VGA display emulator support allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update (bsc#1056336)

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1055047: Fixed --initrd-inject option in virt-install
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:3236-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:3239-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1068187: Failure to recognize errors in the Populate on Demand (PoD) code allowed for DoS (XSA-246)
  • bsc#1068191: Missing p2m error checking in PoD code allowed unprivileged guests to retain a writable mapping of freed memory leading to information leaks, privilege escalation or DoS (XSA-247).
  • CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation (bsc#1063123)
  • CVE-2017-15597: A grant copy operation being done on a grant of a dying domain allowed a malicious guest administrator to corrupt hypervisor memory, allowing for DoS or potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (bsc#1061075).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081).
  • CVE-2017-15592: x86 HVM guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings were mishandled for translated guests (bsc#1061086).
  • CVE-2017-13672: The VGA display emulator support allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update (bsc#1056336)

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1055047: Fixed --initrd-inject option in virt-install
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:3239-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:3242-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1068187: Failure to recognize errors in the Populate on Demand (PoD) code allowed for DoS (XSA-246)
  • bsc#1068191: Missing p2m error checking in PoD code allowed unprivileged guests to retain a writable mapping of freed memory leading to information leaks, privilege escalation or DoS (XSA-247).
  • CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation (bsc#1063123)
  • CVE-2017-15597: A grant copy operation being done on a grant of a dying domain allowed a malicious guest administrator to corrupt hypervisor memory, allowing for DoS or potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (bsc#1061075).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081).
  • CVE-2017-15592: x86 HVM guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings were mishandled for translated guests (bsc#1061086).
  • CVE-2017-13672: The VGA display emulator support allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving display update (bsc#1056336)

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1055047: Fixed --initrd-inject option in virt-install
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:3242-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:0438-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
  • CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
  • CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
  • CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
  • CVE-2018-5683: The vga_draw_text function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation (bsc#1076116).
  • CVE-2017-18030: The cirrus_invalidate_region function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch (bsc#1076180).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1067317: pass cache=writeback|unsafe|directsync to qemu depending on the libxl disk settings
  • bsc#1051729: Prevent invalid symlinks after install of SLES 12 SP2
  • bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn't keep up
  • bsc#1027519: Added several upstream patches
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0438-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:0472-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
  • CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
  • CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
  • CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
  • CVE-2018-5683: The vga_draw_text function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation (bsc#1076116).
  • CVE-2017-18030: The cirrus_invalidate_region function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch (bsc#1076180).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1051729: Prevent invalid symlinks after install of SLES 12 SP2
  • bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn't keep up
  • bsc#1027519: Added several upstream patches
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0472-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:0601-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
  • CVE-2018-5683: The vga_draw_text function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation (bsc#1076116).
  • CVE-2017-18030: The cirrus_invalidate_region function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch (bsc#1076180).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
  • CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
  • CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
  • CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
  • Added missing intermediate preemption checks for guest requesting removal of memory. This allowed malicious guest administrator to cause denial of service due to the high cost of this operation (bsc#1080635).
  • Because of XEN not returning the proper error messages when transitioning grant tables from v2 to v1 a malicious guest was able to cause DoS or potentially allowed for privilege escalation as well as information leaks (bsc#1080662).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn't keep up

  • Upstream patches from Jan (bsc#1027519)

Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0601-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:0609-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
  • CVE-2018-5683: The vga_draw_text function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation (bsc#1076116).
  • CVE-2017-18030: The cirrus_invalidate_region function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch (bsc#1076180).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
  • CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
  • CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
  • CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
  • Added missing intermediate preemption checks for guest requesting removal of memory. This allowed malicious guest administrator to cause denial of service due to the high cost of this operation (bsc#1080635).
  • Because of XEN not returning the proper error messages when transitioning grant tables from v2 to v1 a malicious guest was able to cause DoS or potentially allowed for privilege escalation as well as information leaks (bsc#1080662).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn't keep up
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0609-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:0638-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

This new feature was included:

  • add script and sysv service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
  • CVE-2018-5683: The vga_draw_text function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation (bsc#1076116).
  • CVE-2017-18030: The cirrus_invalidate_region function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch (bsc#1076180).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
  • CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
  • CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
  • CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
  • Added missing intermediate preemption checks for guest requesting removal of memory. This allowed malicious guest administrator to cause denial of service due to the high cost of this operation (bsc#1080635).
  • Because of XEN not returning the proper error messages when transitioning grant tables from v2 to v1 a malicious guest was able to cause DoS or potentially allowed for privilege escalation as well as information leaks (bsc#1080662).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn't keep up
  • bsc#1031382: Prevent VMs from crashing when migrating between dom0 hosts in case read() returns zero on the receiver side.
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0638-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:0678-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
  • CVE-2018-5683: The vga_draw_text function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation (bsc#1076116).
  • CVE-2017-18030: The cirrus_invalidate_region function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch (bsc#1076180).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
  • CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
  • CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
  • CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
  • Added missing intermediate preemption checks for guest requesting removal of memory. This allowed malicious guest administrator to cause denial of service due to the high cost of this operation (bsc#1080635).
  • Because of XEN not returning the proper error messages when transitioning grant tables from v2 to v1 a malicious guest was able to cause DoS or potentially allowed for privilege escalation as well as information leaks (bsc#1080662).
  • CVE-2017-5898: The CCID Card device emulator support was vulnerable to an integer overflow flaw allowing a privileged user to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS (bsc#1024307)
  • Unprivileged domains could have issued well-timed writes to xenstore which conflict with transactions to stall progress of the control domain or driver domain, possibly leading to DoS (bsc#1030144, XSA-206).
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0678-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Alpine:v3.10
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.11
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.12
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.13
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.14
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.15
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.16
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.17
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.18
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.19
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Alpine:v3.20
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.21
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.22
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.23
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.24
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.4
before 4.6.6-r2
4.6.6-r2
xen
Alpine:v3.5
before 4.7.3-r3
4.7.3-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.6
before 4.8.2-r3
4.8.2-r3
xen
Alpine:v3.7
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.8
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Alpine:v3.9
before 4.9.0-r6
4.9.0-r6
xen
Debian:12
before 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
xen
Debian:13
before 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
xen
Debian:14
before 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
xen
Debian:7
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.1.6.lts1-10, plus listed versions
4.1.4-34.1.4-3+deb7u14.1.4-3+deb7u24.1.4-3+deb7u34.1.4-3+deb7u4
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4.1.4-3+deb7u54.1.4-3+deb7u64.1.4-3+deb7u74.1.4-3+deb7u84.1.4-3+deb7u94.1.4-44.1.6.1-1+deb7u14.1.6.lts1-14.1.6.lts1-24.1.6.lts1-34.1.6.lts1-44.1.6.lts1-54.1.6.lts1-64.1.6.lts1-74.1.6.lts1-84.1.6.lts1-9
4.1.6.lts1-10
xen
Debian:8
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.4.4lts3-0+deb8u1, plus listed versions
4.4.1-94.4.1-9+deb8u14.4.1-9+deb8u104.4.1-9+deb8u24.4.1-9+deb8u3
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4.4.1-9+deb8u44.4.1-9+deb8u54.4.1-9+deb8u64.4.1-9+deb8u74.4.1-9+deb8u84.4.1-9+deb8u94.4.4lts1-0+deb8u14.4.4lts2-0+deb8u1
4.4.4lts3-0+deb8u1
xen
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 16 CVEs
before 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1, plus listed versions
4.8.1-1+deb9u14.8.1-1+deb9u24.8.1-1+deb9u3
4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.11.1
4.2.5_21-45.11.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.11.1
4.2.5_21-45.11.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.4.4_24-61.12.1
4.4.4_24-61.12.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.4.4_24-61.12.1
4.4.4_24-61.12.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.4.4_24-61.12.1
4.4.4_24-61.12.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.4.4_24-22.54.1
4.4.4_24-22.54.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1
4.7.3_06-43.15.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1
4.7.3_06-43.15.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1
4.7.3_06-43.15.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1
4.7.3_06-43.15.1
xen
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 4.5.5_18-22.31.1
4.5.5_18-22.31.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 4.5.5_18-22.31.1
4.5.5_18-22.31.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 9 CVEs
before 4.5.5_18-22.31.1
4.5.5_18-22.31.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.16.1
4.2.5_21-45.16.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.16.1
4.2.5_21-45.16.1
xen
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.5.5_20-22.36.3
4.5.5_20-22.36.3
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.5.5_20-22.36.3
4.5.5_20-22.36.3
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.5.5_20-22.36.3
4.5.5_20-22.36.3
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.4.4_26-22.59.3
4.4.4_26-22.59.3
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.4.4_26-61.17.1
4.4.4_26-61.17.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.4.4_26-61.17.1
4.4.4_26-61.17.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 4.4.4_26-61.17.1
4.4.4_26-61.17.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.9.1_08-3.26.1
4.9.1_08-3.26.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.9.1_08-3.26.1
4.9.1_08-3.26.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.9.1_08-3.26.1
4.9.1_08-3.26.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.9.1_08-3.26.1
4.9.1_08-3.26.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.7.4_06-43.24.1
4.7.4_06-43.24.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.7.4_06-43.24.1
4.7.4_06-43.24.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.7.4_06-43.24.1
4.7.4_06-43.24.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.7.4_06-43.24.1
4.7.4_06-43.24.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.4.4_28-22.62.1
4.4.4_28-22.62.1
xen
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.5.5_24-22.43.1
4.5.5_24-22.43.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.5.5_24-22.43.1
4.5.5_24-22.43.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.5.5_24-22.43.1
4.5.5_24-22.43.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.4.4_28-61.23.2
4.4.4_28-61.23.2
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.4.4_28-61.23.2
4.4.4_28-61.23.2
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 4.4.4_28-61.23.2
4.4.4_28-61.23.2
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.19.1
4.2.5_21-45.19.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.19.1
4.2.5_21-45.19.1
xen
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 4.9.2-0ubuntu1, plus listed versions
4.9.0-0ubuntu34.9.0-0ubuntu4
4.9.2-0ubuntu1

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
Exploit-DBXen - Pagetable De-typing Unbounded Recursion2017-10-18

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, Exploit-DB, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-15595 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) in Xen, published October 18, 2017. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.56%, the 75th percentile. Fixed in xen 4.9.0-r6.

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