CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-19963
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting (for external emulators) was mishandled.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-276.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-276.html Patch, Third Party Advisory