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SUSE: CVE-2018-18883: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-18883: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/31/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/12/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:4070-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:0003-1
  • CVE-2018-18883

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