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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15590: xen Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15590: xen Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/18/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/28/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because MSI mapping was mishandled.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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