cve-2018-5244
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-05 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 05:33
Severity ?
Summary
In Xen 4.10, new infrastructure was introduced as part of an overhaul to how MSR emulation happens for guests. Unfortunately, one tracking structure isn't freed when a vcpu is destroyed. This allows guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by rebooting many times.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102433Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040774
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
cve@mitre.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-253.htmlIssue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
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