CVE-2019-17348 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

A guest OS user can cause a denial of service in the Xen hypervisor due to an incompatibility between PCID and shadow-pagetable switching.

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-2019-17348?

CVE-2019-17348 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 8 Oct 2019. 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 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers (PCID) and shadow-pagetable switching.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-17348?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2019-17348?

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-2019-17348 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17348 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-17348, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17348, GHSA-q6r9-f65g-rcx6.

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