CVE-2018-10981: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) in situations where a QEMU device model attempts to make invalid transitions between states of a request.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Xen Xen: up to and including 4.10.1

Published 2018-05-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.