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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-0231: Xen Security Advisory CVE-2013-0231 / XSA-43

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-0231: Xen Security Advisory CVE-2013-0231 / XSA-43

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/12/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

The pciback_enable_msi function in the PCI backend driver (drivers/xen/pciback/conf_space_capability_msi.c) in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a denial of service via a large number of kernel log messages. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-grsec

References

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