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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-2072: Xen Security Advisory 56

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-2072: Xen Security Advisory 56

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/28/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

Buffer overflow in the Python bindings for the xc_vcpu_setaffinity call in Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x allows local administrators with permissions to configure VCPU affinity to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and xend toolstack crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted cpumap.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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