CVE-2018-7540 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in XEN

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption7 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
XENDebian XENDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedFeb 27
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS CPU hang) via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing.

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+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5 (bookworm)
▶Debianxen/xen< 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5+3
▶NVDxen/xen4.10.0

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g669-vf33-57jw: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-7540: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4↗2018-02-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
xen: DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing (XSA-252)↗2018-02-27
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Debian
CVE-2018-7540: xen - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to ...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7540 xen: xsa252 xen: DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing (XSA-252) [fedora-all]↗2018-02-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7540 xsa252 xen: DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing (XSA-252)↗2018-02-12
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