Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-10918

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 does not validate memory allocations during certain P2M operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS access, aka...

RHEL 5 : xsa222_xen (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - xsa222 xen: stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking XSA-222 CVE-2017-10918 Note that Nessus has not...

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...

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...

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-2017-10918

CVE-2017-10918 concerns Xen, up to version 4.8.x, where memory allocations during certain P2M operations are not validated. This can let guest OS users obtain privileged host OS access (XSA-222). Impact is privilege escalation, with potential information leaks/DoS as noted in sources. The issue a...