Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xen package, versions [,4.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383901
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7541  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.10.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or gain privileges by triggering a grant-table transition from v2 to v1.

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