VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-14431

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Memory leak in Xen 3.3 through 4.8.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption) by continually rebooting, because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned, aka XSA-207.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Primary references