CVE-2018-7542

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-7542
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-27 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-31 10:32:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

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
Xen Local APIC Error Lets Local Users on a Guest System Cause Denial of Service Conditions on the Host System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201810-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4131-1 xen DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
XSA-256 - Xen Security Advisories CONFIRM xenbits.xen.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500747 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 504524 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 710221 Gentoo Linux Xen Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201810-06)
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