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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.47% · top 59% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• GLSA-201810-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20180525 [SECURITY] [DLA 1383-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• DSA-4201 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20181018 [SECURITY] [DLA 1549-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 104150 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/08/2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-261.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 07:54 UTC.