CVE-2018-19961
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-08 04:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:51
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because TLB flushes do not always occur after IOMMU mapping changes.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00008.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH7RGPI4UKTT/
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.citrix.com/article/CTX239432Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-275.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
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