CVE-2018-7542
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-27 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:31
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.10.x allowing x86 PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash) by leveraging the mishandling of configurations that lack a Local APIC.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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