SB2018110611 - Denial of service in Xen
Published: November 6, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018110611
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19967)
The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to unspecified flaw. An adjacent attacker can invoke a HLE transaction with the XACQUIRE prefix on the host physical memory range covering the first 4 MiB starting at the 1GiB boundary to cause denial of service conditions on the host system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.