An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9.x through 4.11.x, on Intel x86 platforms, allowing x86 HVM and PVH guests to cause a host OS denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact because nested VT-x is not properly restricted.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105817 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042021 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-278.html Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-11-01T00:00:00

Updated: 2018-11-06T10:57:01

Reserved: 2018-10-31T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-18883

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-11-01T00:29:00.190

Modified: 2019-01-24T14:23:57.487


Link: CVE-2018-18883

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