An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) because certain bit iteration is mishandled. In a number of places bitmaps are being used by the hypervisor to track certain state. Iteration over all bits involves functions which may misbehave in certain corner cases: On x86 accesses to bitmaps with a compile time known size of 64 may incur undefined behavior, which may in particular result in infinite loops. A malicious guest may cause a hypervisor crash or hang, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). All versions of Xen are vulnerable. x86 systems with 64 or more nodes are vulnerable (there might not be any such systems that Xen would run on). x86 systems with less than 64 nodes are not vulnerable.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-12-11T16:50:13

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:16:48.555Z

Reserved: 2019-12-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-19582

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-11T18:16:19.537

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:34:59.587

Link: CVE-2019-19582

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-12-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-19582 - Bugzilla