CVE-2018-19966

xen: Conflicts with shadow paging due to XSA-240 incomplete fix (XSA-280)

Published Dec 8, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1949-1 xen security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4369-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-11636 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 11:51 AM
Reserved
Dec 7, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 8, 2018, 4:29 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:50 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Nov 20, 2018, 12:00 AM