PT-2018-16835 · Xen · Xen

Andrew Cooper · Published 2018-01-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-5244

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen version 4.10

Description A denial of service issue exists due to a tracking structure not being freed when a vcpu is destroyed, allowing guest OS administrators to cause host OS memory consumption by rebooting many times.

Recommendations For Xen version 4.10, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5244

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

Affected Products

Xen

References · 102

• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-253.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-5244 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5244 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5244 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8309 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10025 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8910 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15565 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29481 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29570 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12891 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15563 · Note