CVE-2018-5244medium
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Description
In Xen 4.10, new infrastructure was introduced as part of an overhaul to how MSR emulation happens for guests. Unfortunately, one tracking structure isn't freed when a vcpu is destroyed. This allows guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by rebooting many times.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102433
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040774
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-01-05
Updated: 2018-10-31
Type: CWE-119
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 4.9
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Impact Score: 6.9
Exploitability Score: 3.9
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 4
Exploitability Score: 2
Severity: MEDIUM
Vulnerable Software
Configuration 1
OR
Tenable Plugins
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118506 | GLSA-201810-06 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (Foreshadow) (Meltdown) (Spectre) | Nessus | Gentoo Local Security Checks | critical |
| 105775 | Xen vcpu Destruction Handling Memory Exhaustion Guest-to-Host DoS (XSA-253) | Nessus | Misc. | medium |