vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-7540: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2018
Added
Mar 20, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS CPU hang) via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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