CVE-2018-10981 — Infinite Loop in XEN

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop6 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 78.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
XENDebian XENDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedMay 10
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) in situations where a QEMU device model attempts to make invalid transitions between states of a request.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/xen< xen 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6 (bookworm)
▶Debianxen/xen< 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6+3
▶NVDxen/xen4.10.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: openwall.com ↗Patch: xenbits.xen.org ↗Patch: openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g85j-48pg-m4xc: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-10981: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2018-05-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
xen: qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop (XSA-262)↗2018-05-08
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Debian
CVE-2018-10981: xen - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-10981 xsa262 xen: qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop (XSA-262)↗2018-04-25
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