CVE-2018-7542
Published: 27 February 2018
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
artful |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
| bionic |
Not vulnerable
(4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5)
|
|
| cosmic |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| disco |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| eoan |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| focal |
Not vulnerable
(4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5)
|
|
| groovy |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| hirsute |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| impish |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| jammy |
Not vulnerable
(4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5)
|
|
| kinetic |
Not vulnerable
(4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5)
|
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
|
|
| upstream |
Released
(4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5)
|
|
| xenial |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 6.5 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |