CVE-2017-8904

Name	CVE-2017-8904
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-964-1, DSA-3847-1
Debian Bugs	861660

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	bullseye	4.14.6-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1	fixed
	bookworm	4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin	Debian Bugs
xen	source	wheezy	4.1.6.lts1-8	DLA-964-1
xen	source	jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u9	DSA-3847-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.8.1-1+deb9u1		861660

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html