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Tracker / CVE-2018-14678

CVE-2018-14678

High 7.8

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.11, as used in Xen through 4.11.x. The xen_failsafe_callback entry point in arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S does not properly maintain RBX, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory usage and system crash). Within Xen, 64-bit x86 PV Linux guest OS users can trigger a guest OS crash or possibly gain privileges.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 4.14.21 → 4.14.61
linux linux_kernel · 4.15.5 → 4.17.13
xen xen · … → 4.11.0

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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