medium5.6
CVE-2018-19965
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing 64-bit PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because #GP[0] can occur after a n…
Impact
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing 64-bit PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because #GP[0] can occur after a non-canonical address is passed to the TLB flushing code. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown) mitigation.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Xen | Xen | through 4.11.1 |
| Citrix | Xenserver | Versions 7.0, 7.1, 7.5, 7.6 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 9.0 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH7RGPI4UKTT/
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX239432
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-279.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH7RGPI4UKTT/
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX239432
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-279.html