CVE-2018-10982

N/A
Published: May 10, 2018 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:35 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxXen

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unexpectedly high interrupt number, array overrun, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain hypervisor privileges by setting up an HPET timer to deliver interrupts in IO-APIC mode, aka vHPET interrupt injection.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Xen· Xenwordpress-plugin
95%
v ≤ 4.10.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (7)

x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/08/2
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104150
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00015.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationPatchVendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-261.html

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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