Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-10912

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Xen through 4.8.x mishandles page transfer, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-217. CVE-2017-10912 Note that Nessus relies...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1132-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for xen (openSUSE-SU-2017:1826-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-799)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-10912: Page transfer might have allowed PV guest to elevate privilege XSA-217, bsc1042882 - CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914: Races in the grant table unmap code allowed for informations leaks and potentially...

CVE-2017-10912

CVE-2017-10912 affects Xen hypervisor; Xen 4.8.x and older mishandles page transfers (XSA-217), enabling a privileged guest OS escalation to host OS. The issue is central to Xen’s grant/page handling and can lead to host-level privilege escalation, per Debian/GLSA coverage. Remediation in public ...