CVE-2017-7228
High
CVE-2017-7228
An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
Exploit probability
1.6%
Published
April 4, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 10, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2017-7228
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An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/04/3
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97375
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038223
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html
- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-029-2017.txt
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/pandavirtualization-exploiting-xen.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41870/