vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-17563: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Dec 12, 2017 | Mar 6, 2018 | Aug 8, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 12, 2017
Added
Mar 6, 2018
Modified
Aug 8, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
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