PT-2026-65461 · Xen · Xen

CVE-2026-42493

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Published

2026-07-28

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Updated

2026-07-28

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Addressing certain issues, in particular related to operations which may take excessively long and therefore would need preemption, has turned out overly costly. Since alternatives (HVM/PVH: HAP, PV: shim) are commonly available, the decision was to deprecate the functionality, while still retaining it for people to use at their own (security) risk. Memory-wise small enough guests may still be okay to run.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-42493

Affected Products

Xen