CVE-2017-17044: Xen

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.

Affected products

• Xen Xen: up to and including 4.9.1

Published 2017-11-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.