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CVE-2018-7542
published 2018-02-27

CVE-2018-7542: 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…

PriorityP420medium6.5CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRLUINSCCNINAH
EPSS
0.39%
31.2th percentile
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

7 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiandebian_linux——
debianxen< xen 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5 (bookworm)xen 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5 (bookworm)
xenxen>= 0 < 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u54.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5
xenxen>= 0 < 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u54.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5
xenxen>= 0 < 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u54.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5
xenxen>= 0 < 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u54.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5
xenxen4.8.0 – 4.10.0—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM
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