vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-7542: xen -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2018
Added
Mar 5, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.10.x allowing x86 PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash) by leveraging the mishandling of configurations that lack a Local APIC.

Solution

debian-upgrade-xen
Title
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