CVE-2018-19963

high

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting (for external emulators) was mishandled.

References

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-276.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-12-08

Updated: 2019-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High