CVE-2018-7541 (GCVE-0-2018-7541)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-27 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:31
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or gain privileges by triggering a grant-table transition from v2 to v1.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-02-27 00:00
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