CVE-2018-7540 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-7540?

CVE-2018-7540 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 27 Feb 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 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS CPU hang) via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7540?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2018-7540?

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-2018-7540 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7540 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-7540, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7540, GHSA-g669-vf33-57jw, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7540.