CVE-2017-8904

8.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (8.8) in xen xen. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2017-05-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

xen:xen

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98428
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038387
https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html

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