FKIE_CVE-2018-7542

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-02-27 19:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:03
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.10.x allowing x86 PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash) by leveraging the mishandling of configurations that lack a Local APIC.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040776
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4131Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-256.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040776
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4131Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-256.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xen xen *
debian debian_linux 9.0
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