CVE-2017-8904

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.

Date published : 2017-05-11

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98428

https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/