| Name | CVE-2017-7228 |
| Description | An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays. |
| 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-907-1, DSA-3847-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 859560 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.4.4lts5-0+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1 | fixed | |
| 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 | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xen | source | wheezy | 4.1.6.lts1-6 | DLA-907-1 | ||
| xen | source | jessie | 4.4.1-9+deb8u9 | DSA-3847-1 | ||
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.8.1-1 | 859560 |
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html