vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-10916: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
2017-07-05
Added
2017-10-27
Modified
2024-10-01

Description

The vCPU context-switch implementation in Xen through 4.8.x improperly interacts with the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) features, which makes it easier for guest OS users to defeat ASLR and other protection mechanisms, aka XSA-220.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
NEW

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