CVE-2018-19966
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-08 04:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:51
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-15595.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00008.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH7RGPI4UKTT/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-280.htmlMitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00008.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH7RGPI4UKTT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-280.htmlMitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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