CVE-2017-8904

First published: Thu May 11 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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