Vigil@nce - Xen: denial of service via a change of page table type
March 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A privileged attacker in a guest system can request a change of
page table type to Xen without unmapping related pages, in order
to make the host crash.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, Xen.
Severity: 1/4.
Creation date: 27/02/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
A privileged attacker in a guest system can request a change of
page table type to Xen without unmapping related pages, in order
to make the host crash.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Xen-denial-of-service-via-a-change-of-page-table-type-25386