CVE-2017-12134 (GCVE-0-2017-12134)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-24 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The xen_biovec_phys_mergeable function in drivers/xen/biomerge.c in Xen might allow local OS guest users to corrupt block device data streams and consequently obtain sensitive memory information, cause a denial of service, or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect block IO merge-ability calculation.
References
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/4 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100343 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039176 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-229.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477656 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
cve@mitre.org https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941 Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/
cve@mitre.org https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/4 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100343 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039176 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-229.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477656 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941 Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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