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CVE-2018-19967 json

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on Intel x86 platforms allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) be…

published 2018-12-08 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-11637

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on Intel x86 platforms allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) because Xen does not work around Intel's mishandling of certain HLE transactions associated with the KACQUIRE instruction prefix.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.11.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19967

  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +2 more 4.7.6_06-43.48.1
  • xen SLE Module for Server Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 4.10.3_02-3.14.1
  • xen SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 4.2.5_21-45.30.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 4.4.4_38-61.40.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4, SLED 12 SP4 +1 more 4.11.1_02-2.3.1
  • xen SLES 12-LTSS 4.4.4_40-22.77.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS 4.5.5_28-22.58.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:0921-1SUSE-SU-2019:0875-1SUSE-SU-2019:14011-1SUSE-SU-2019:0827-1SUSE-SU-2019:0825-1SUSE-SU-2019:13921-1

  • xen openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.15.1_01-1.2
  • xen openSUSE Leap 15.0 4.10.3_02-lp150.2.16.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1199-1

  • xen Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +13 more 4.11.1-r0
  • xen Alpine 3.6 4.8.5-r0
  • xen Alpine 3.7 4.9.3-r1
  • xen Alpine 3.8 4.10.2-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-19967

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-19967 updated cvss 5.3

xen: guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.