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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-12136: Race Condition

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 24, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x through 4.9.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (free list corruption and host crash) or gain privileges on the host via vectors involving maptrack free list handling.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
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