CVE-2018-19966

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-19966
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-08 04:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:55:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-436

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1226-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1949-1] xen security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Xen Multiple Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: xen-4.10.3-2.fc28 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4369-1 xen DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
XSA-280 - Xen Security Advisories MISC xenbits.xen.org Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: xen-4.10.3-2.fc28 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500751 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 504528 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
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