ALPINE-CVE-2018-19965

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    ALPINE-CVE-2018-19965

    Published: 8 Dec 2018Last Modified: 9 Jun 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-19965

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing 64-bit PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because #GP[0] can occur after a non-canonical address is passed to the TLB flushing code. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown) mitigation.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-19965

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/xen?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.11.1-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High