CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-7542
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (>= 4.8.0 <= 4.10.0)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040776 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4131 Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-256.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040776 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4131 Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-256.html Vendor Advisory