Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-7542
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.
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Affected products
6- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/xen&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 4.15.1_01-1.2+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.15.1_01-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4131nvdThird Party Advisory
- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-256.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1040776nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06nvd
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