Resource Exhaustion Affecting xen package, versions <4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-XEN-366352
  • published27 Feb 2018
  • disclosed27 Feb 2018

Introduced: 27 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7540  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 xen to version 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.