CVE-2018-19966
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-15595.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 8.8 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-12-08
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-436
Affected products
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Xen (Xen)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH…
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-280.html
