CVE-2017-14317

xen: cxenstored: Race in domain cleanup (XSA-233)

Published Sep 12, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 5.6 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.).

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1132-1 xen security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1549-1 xen security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4050-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-5820 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.).
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 7:20 PM
Reserved
Sep 12, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 12, 2017, 3:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:05 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 12, 2017, 12:00 AM