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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-3433: Multiple vulnerabilities in xen < 4.1.3 may allow remote denial of service

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-3433: Multiple vulnerabilities in xen < 4.1.3 may allow remote denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/24/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

Xen 4.0 and 4.1 allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (domain 0 VCPU hang and kernel panic) by modifying the physical address space in a way that triggers excessive shared page search time during the p2m teardown.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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