Out-of-bounds write in Xen - CVE-2018-10471

 

Out-of-bounds write in Xen - CVE-2018-10471

Published: May 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12542
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10471
CWE-ID: CWE-787
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition or execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an unconditional write attempt of the value zero to an address near 2^64. An adjacent attacker can cause the service to crash or execute arbitrary code via unexpected INT 80 processing.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Affected software

Xen
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Fedora
xen (Alpine package)
xen

How to mitigate CVE-2018-10471

Install update from vendor's website.

xen (Alpine package) - update to 4.6.6-r5
xen - addressed in versions 4.8.3-4.fc26, 4.9.2-2.fc27, 4.10.0-9.fc28

External References

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