CVE-2018-7540 (GCVE-0-2018-7540)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-27 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:31
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS CPU hang) via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing.
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