| Name | CVE-2017-15596 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (prevent physical CPU usage) because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3969-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch | 4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster | 4.11.4+57-g41a822c392-2 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 4.11.4+99-g8bce4698f6-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xen | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| xen | source | jessie | 4.4.1-9+deb8u10 | DSA-3969-1 | ||
| xen | source | stretch | 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 | DSA-3969-1 | ||
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.8.1-1+deb9u3 |
[wheezy] - xen <not-affected> (No arm support in Wheezy)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-235.html