CVE-2017-10917

Name	CVE-2017-10917
Description	Xen through 4.8.x does not validate the port numbers of polled event channel ports, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information, aka XSA-221.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	high (attack range: remote)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	wheezy	4.1.4-3+deb7u9	vulnerable
	wheezy (security)	4.1.6.lts1-8	vulnerable
	jessie (security), jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u9	vulnerable
	buster, sid, stretch	4.8.1-1+deb9u1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
xen	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	high

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-221.html