Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting xen package, versions [4.11.0,4.11.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383953
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19964  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.11.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) because the p2m lock remains unavailable indefinitely in certain error conditions.

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