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CVE-2017-14317

A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).

Severity
Medium 5.6
Published
12 Sept 2017
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Exploit chance
0.3% in the next 30 daysHigher than 20% of CVEs. EPSS by FIRST, 11 Nov 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
XenServers and applications · cpe:o:xen:xen
  • Every version up to 4.9.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14317
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14317