CVE-2018-10982
HIGHXen < 4.10.1 - Denial of Service or Privilege Escalation via vHPET Interrupt Injection
Title source: llmDescription
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unexpectedly high interrupt number, array overrun, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain hypervisor privileges by setting up an HPET timer to deliver interrupts in IO-APIC mode, aka vHPET interrupt injection.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104150
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/08/2
Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-261.html
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
21.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux
7.0
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
xen/xen
< 4.10.1
Published
May 10, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026