CVE-2018-19965

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    CVE-2018-19965

    Published: 8 Dec 2018Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    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: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH7RGPI4UKTT/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182, https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369, https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX239432, https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-279.html

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Low
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    Availability
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    High