Denial of service in Xen - CVE-2018-19961
Published: November 21, 2018 / Updated: December 12, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16002
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19961
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to insufficient TLB flushing after improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs. An adjacent attacker can cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists due to insufficient TLB flushing after improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs. An adjacent attacker can cause the service to crash.
Affected software
Xen
xen (Alpine package)
xen (Debian package)
xen
Opensuse
Fedora
xen (Alpine package)
xen (Debian package)
xen
Opensuse
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2018-19961
Install update from vendor's website.
xen (Alpine package) - update to 4.9.3-r1
xen (Debian package) - update to 4.8.5+shim4.10.2+xsa282-1+deb9u11
xen - addressed in versions 4.10.2-4.fc28, 4.10.3-1.fc28, 4.10.3-2.fc28, 4.11.0-10.fc29
xen (Debian package) - update to 4.8.5+shim4.10.2+xsa282-1+deb9u11
xen - addressed in versions 4.10.2-4.fc28, 4.10.3-1.fc28, 4.10.3-2.fc28, 4.11.0-10.fc29