vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9377: Incorrect Calculation

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 22, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x on AMD systems without the NRip feature, when emulating instructions that generate software interrupts, allows local HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging IDT entry miscalculation.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
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