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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7154: xen Multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7154: xen Multiple issues

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the FIFO event channel code in Xen 4.4.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information via an invalid guest frame number.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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