CVE-2018-10982

High

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unexpectedly high interrupt number, array overrun, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain hypervisor privileges by setting up an HPET timer to deliver interrupts in IO-APIC mode, aka vHPET interrupt injection.

SeverityHigh

CVSS8.8

Exploit probability—

Product

Xen

PublishedMay 10, 2018

First seenMay 10, 2018

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
xen xen	v ≤ 4.10.1	—
debian debian_linux	7.0, 8.0, 9.0	—

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