CVE-2019-19582

MEDIUM

Xen <4.12.x - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) because certain bit iteration is mishandled. In a number of places bitmaps are being used by the hypervisor to track certain state. Iteration over all bits involves functions which may misbehave in certain corner cases: On x86 accesses to bitmaps with a compile time known size of 64 may incur undefined behavior, which may in particular result in infinite loops. A malicious guest may cause a hypervisor crash or hang, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). All versions of Xen are vulnerable. x86 systems with 64 or more nodes are vulnerable (there might not be any such systems that Xen would run on). x86 systems with less than 64 nodes are not vulnerable.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-307.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 28.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (2)
fedoraproject/fedora 31
xen/xen 4.8.0 - 4.12.1
Published Dec 11, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026