CVE-2018-5244 is a memory leak vulnerability affecting Xen 4.10, specifically within its MSR emulation infrastructure. A guest OS administrator can trigger a denial of service by repeatedly rebooting, leading to host memory exhaustion. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires local access and has a high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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