CVE-2017-14317
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.).
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.).
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.28% probability · 20th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- xen/xen
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100826Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039350Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-233.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100826Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039350Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-233.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.