CVE-2018-7541

Severity

61%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

141%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-02-27 19:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Xen

Debian Linux 9.0

9.0

References

103177

1040775

[debian-lts-announce] 20180306 [SECURITY] [DLA 1300-1] xen security update

Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20181112 [SECURITY] [DLA 1577-1] xen security update

GLSA-201810-06

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232655

DSA-4131

Third Party Advisory

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-255.html

Vendor Advisory

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