CVE-2018-10981 Denial of service in n/a
A guest OS user can cause a host OS infinite loop and denial of service by triggering invalid state transitions in the QEMU device model.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-10981?
CVE-2018-10981 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) in situations where a QEMU device model attempts to make invalid transitions between states of a request.
Weakness: CWE-835
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10981?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10981?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-10981 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10981 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-10981, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10981, GHSA-g85j-48pg-m4xc, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10981.