CVE-2018-19965

NameCVE-2018-19965
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4369-1
NVD severitymedium (attack range: local)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
xen (PTS)jessie4.4.1-9+deb8u10vulnerable
jessie (security)4.4.4lts4-0+deb8u1vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch4.8.5+shim4.10.2+xsa282-1+deb9u11fixed
buster, sid4.11.1+92-g6c33308a8d-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xensource(unstable)4.11.1-1medium
xensourcestretch4.8.5+shim4.10.2+xsa282-1+deb9u11mediumDSA-4369-1

Notes

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-279.txt
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