CVE-2018-5244
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.06%Published: 1/5/2018Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2018-5244
Description
In Xen 4.10, new infrastructure was introduced as part of an overhaul to how MSR emulation happens for guests. Unfortunately, one tracking structure isn't freed when a vcpu is destroyed. This allows guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by rebooting many times.
Affected packages (1)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.10.0-r1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |