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

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Jul 5, 2017

Added

Oct 27, 2017

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

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

References

CVE-2017-10916
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-10916
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-10916
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-2554
CWE-200
EUVD-EUVD-2017-2554

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