CVE-2018-7540medium
Description
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.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103174
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040773
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232655
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-02-27
Updated: 2018-11-13
Type: CWE-400
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