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Debian: CVE-2018-7540: xen -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-7540: xen -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/27/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/05/2018
Modified
02/18/2020

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(s)

  • debian-upgrade-xen

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