ALPINE-CVE-2018-19966

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CVE-2018-19966
Published: 08 Dec 2018, 04:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:43

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

08 Dec 2018, 04:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:43
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-15595.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•xen

    < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.11.1-r0 | < 4.8.5-r0 | < 4.9.3-r1 | < 4.10.2-r1 | < 4.11.1-r0

References (1)