CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-10982
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unexpectedly high interrupt number, array overrun, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain hypervisor privileges by setting up an HPET timer to deliver interrupts in IO-APIC mode, aka vHPET interrupt injection.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.10.1)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/08/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104150 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00015.html Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201 Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-261.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/08/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104150 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00015.html Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201 Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-261.html Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory