Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2019-18420 First vendor Publication 2019-10-31
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 6.5
Base Score 6.5 Environmental Score 6.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 6.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.8
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 6.8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a VCPUOP_initialise hypercall. hypercall_create_continuation() is a variadic function which uses a printf-like format string to interpret its parameters. Error handling for a bad format character was done using BUG(), which crashes Xen. One path, via the VCPUOP_initialise hypercall, has a bad format character. The BUG() can be hit if VCPUOP_initialise executes for a sufficiently long period of time for a continuation to be created. Malicious guests may cause a hypervisor crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Xen versions 4.6 and newer are vulnerable. Xen versions 4.5 and earlier are not vulnerable. Only x86 PV guests can exploit the vulnerability. HVM and PVH guests, and guests on ARM systems, cannot exploit the vulnerability.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18420

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-134 Uncontrolled Format String (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 17
Os 2
Os 3
Os 154

Sources (Detail)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedora...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedora...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedora...
Source Url
BUGTRAQ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56
MISC http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-296.html
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/31/1
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00037.html

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Date Informations
2023-11-07 21:38:55
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2023-02-23 09:27:32
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2021-09-02 01:34:40
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2021-05-04 13:29:52
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2021-04-22 02:44:17
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2021-03-27 01:29:41
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2020-09-03 01:26:21
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2020-05-23 02:26:58
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