Denial of Service Vulnerability in Xen Hypervisor due to Mishandling of Configurations without Local APIC

CVE-2018-7542 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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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