CVE-2017-15593
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 (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
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
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
6.5
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
CVE-2017-15593- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 4.9 Medium
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-772
- 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 (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
CVE-2017-15593- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-7045 No score
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
EUVD-2017-7045- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-j465-85mv-hcv9
6.5
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 (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
GHSA-j465-85mv-hcv9- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-772
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2017-15593
6.5
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
ALPINE-CVE-2017-15593- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
6.5
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
CVE-2017-15593- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-15593
6.5
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15593- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-15593
6.5
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak) because reference counts are mishandled.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15593- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/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
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
xenAlpine:v3.10 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.11 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.12 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.13 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.14 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.15 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.16 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.17 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.18 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.19 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
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| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
xenAlpine:v3.20 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.21 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.22 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.23 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.24 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.4 |
before 4.6.6-r2 | 4.6.6-r2 |
xenAlpine:v3.5 |
before 4.7.3-r3 | 4.7.3-r3 |
xenAlpine:v3.6 |
before 4.8.2-r3 | 4.8.2-r3 |
xenAlpine:v3.7 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.8 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenAlpine:v3.9 |
before 4.9.0-r6 | 4.9.0-r6 |
xenDebian:12 |
before 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
xenDebian:13 |
before 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
xenDebian:14 |
before 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 | 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 |
xenDebian:7 |
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 Show 16 moreShow less4.1.4-3+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 |
xenDebian:8 |
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 Show 8 moreShow less4.4.1-9+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 |
xenDebian:9 |
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 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 |
before 4.2.5_21-45.11.1 | 4.2.5_21-45.11.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS |
before 4.2.5_21-45.11.1 | 4.2.5_21-45.11.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 |
before 4.4.4_24-61.12.1 | 4.4.4_24-61.12.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 |
before 4.4.4_24-61.12.1 | 4.4.4_24-61.12.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 |
before 4.4.4_24-61.12.1 | 4.4.4_24-61.12.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS |
before 4.4.4_24-22.54.1 | 4.4.4_24-22.54.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 |
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 | 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 |
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 | 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 |
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 | 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 |
before 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 | 4.7.3_06-43.15.1 |
xenSUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6 |
before 4.5.5_18-22.31.1 | 4.5.5_18-22.31.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 |
before 4.5.5_18-22.31.1 | 4.5.5_18-22.31.1 |
xenSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS |
before 4.5.5_18-22.31.1 | 4.5.5_18-22.31.1 |
xenUbuntu:18.04:LTS |
before 4.9.2-0ubuntu1, plus listed versions 4.9.0-0ubuntu34.9.0-0ubuntu4 |
4.9.2-0ubuntu1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2017-15593 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Xen, published October 18, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.39%, the 33rd percentile. Fixed in xen 4.9.0-r6.
References
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html
debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050
support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867
xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-242.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
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securitytracker.com/id/1039568
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15593
github.com/advisories/GHSA-j465-85mv-hcv9
security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-15593
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15593
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172812-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1059777
bugzilla.suse.com/1061076
bugzilla.suse.com/1061080
bugzilla.suse.com/1061081
bugzilla.suse.com/1061082
bugzilla.suse.com/1061084
bugzilla.suse.com/1061086
bugzilla.suse.com/1061087
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15588
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15589
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15590
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15592
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15593
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15594
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15595
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5526
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172815-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1027519
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172856-1
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172864-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1057358
bugzilla.suse.com/1061077
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15591
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172873-1
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15593
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15593