Candidate: CVE-2017-17566
PublicDate: 2017-12-12 23:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17566
 https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-248.html
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/12/4
Description:
 An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to
 cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in
 shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> hypervisor packages are in universe. For
 mdeslaur> issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate
 mdeslaur> tags to each section, ex:
 mdeslaur> Tags_xen: universe-binary
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.8 HIGH]

Patches_xen:
Tags_xen: universe-binary
upstream_xen: released (4.9.2)
precise/esm_xen: DNE
trusty_xen: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_xen: DNE (trusty was needs-triage)
xenial_xen: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
esm-infra/xenial_xen: needed
zesty_xen: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_xen: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_xen: released (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
cosmic_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
disco_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
eoan_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
focal_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
groovy_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
hirsute_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
impish_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
jammy_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)
devel_xen: not-affected (4.9.2-0ubuntu1)