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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-12-08T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:51:17.776Z

Reserved: 2018-12-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-19966

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-08T04:29:00.467

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:58:54.313

Link: CVE-2018-19966

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-19966 - Bugzilla