SB2018080112 - Denial of service in Xen 



SB2018080112 - Denial of service in Xen

Published: August 1, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018080112
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Adjecent network
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14678)

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to an uninitialized %ebx state error in a failsafe callback path on x86 PV systems. An adjacent attacker can cause the service to crash.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.