VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-7542

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-02-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references