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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-256.html | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4131 | Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040776 | |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 |
Information
Published : 2018-02-27 11:29
Updated : 2018-10-31 03:32
NVD link : CVE-2018-7542
Mitre link : CVE-2018-7542
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CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
xen
- xen