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ALPINE-CVE-2018-7542

ALPINE-CVE-2018-7542 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.10.x allowing x86 PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash) by leveraging the mishandling of configurations that lack a Local APIC.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.9xen0, 0, 4.9.1-r3
Alpine:v3.20xen4.2.1-r5, 0, 4.0.1-r0
Alpine:v3.15xen4.2.1-r2, 4.2.1-r4, 4.2.1-r3
Alpine:v3.24xen0
Alpine:v3.7xen4.6.1-r2, 0, 4.9.1-r3
Alpine:v3.17xen4.7.0-r2, 4.8.1-r0, 4.8.1-r1
Alpine:v3.19xen4.2.1-r2, 4.1.0-r2, 4.1.0-r1
Alpine:v3.11xen4.1.2-r6, 0, 4.0.1-r0
Alpine:v3.21xen4.2.2-r3, 0, 4.2.2-r4
Alpine:v3.12xen4.9.0-r6, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.8xen4.2.2-r9, 0, 4.0.1-r0
Alpine:v3.13xen4.1.2-r8, 4.9.0-r5, 0
Alpine:v3.14xen4.7.1-r5, 0, 4.0.1-r0
Alpine:v3.22xen0, 4.9.0-r5, 4.9.0-r6
Alpine:v3.6xen0, 4.8.2-r4, 4.8.2-r3
Alpine:v3.16xen4.0.1-r0, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.10xen0, 0, 4.9.1-r2
Alpine:v3.18xen4.0.1-r0, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.23xen4.0.1-r0, 0, 4.0.1-r1

Timeline

  • Feb 27, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Jun 9, 2026 CVE Updated
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