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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-10025: xen Multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-10025: xen Multiple issues

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/26/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

VMFUNC emulation in Xen 4.6.x through 4.8.x on x86 systems using AMD virtualization extensions (aka SVM) allows local HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) by leveraging a missing NULL pointer check.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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