CVE-2018-19966

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    CVE-2018-19966

    Published: 8 Dec 2018Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-15595.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00008.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://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-280.html

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    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    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
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