In Xen 4.10, new infrastructure was introduced as part of an overhaul to how MSR emulation happens for guests. Unfortunately, one tracking structure isn't freed when a vcpu is destroyed. This allows guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by rebooting many times.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-01-05T18:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T05:33:43.746Z
Reserved: 2018-01-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-5244
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-01-05T18:29:00.247
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:08:24.847
Link: CVE-2018-5244
Redhat