CVE-2018-5244

Publication date

2018-01-05 18:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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 isnt 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.