CVE-2017-10915

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Cooper (Citrix) as the original reporter.", "bugzilla": {"description": "xen: x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation (XSA-219)", "id": "1458873", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458873"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "8.5", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "Where the HVM guest is explicitly configured to use shadow paging (eg\nvia the `hap=0' xl domain configuration file parameter), changing to\nHAP (eg by setting `hap=1') will avoid exposing the vulnerability to\nthose guests. HAP is the default (in upstream Xen), where the\nhardware supports it; so this mitigation is only applicable if HAP has\nbeen disabled by configuration.\n(This mitigation is not applicable to PV guests.)"}, "name": "CVE-2017-10915", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "xen", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}], "public_date": "2017-06-20T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10915\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10915\nhttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html"], "threat_severity": "Important"}

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