CVE-2018-7542
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.05%Published: 2/27/2018Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2018-7542DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7542
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.10.0-r2
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |