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CVE-2018-5244
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-01-05T18:29:00.247 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:59:54.410

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.

Affected products

xen — xen

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References

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