CVE-2018-10471

MEDIUM

Xen < 4.10.1 - Denial of Service via Unexpected INT 80 Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104003
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-259.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 18.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
xen/xen < 4.10.1
Published Apr 27, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026