CVE-2018-7540

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
xen: through 4.10.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103174
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040773
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232096
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232655
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4131
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-252.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103174
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040773
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00003.html

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