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CVE-2018-19966
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-08T04:29:00.467 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:50:12.280

Summary

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-15595.

Affected products

xen — xen

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References

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