CVE-2018-18883

Name
CVE-2018-18883
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9.x through 4.11.x, on Intel x86 platforms, allowing x86 HVM and PVH guests to cause a host OS denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact because nested VT-x is not properly restricted.
NVD Severity
high
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Mitigation https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-278.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042021
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105817

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* xen >= 4.9.0 <= 4.11.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status