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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-17564: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 12, 2017
Added
Mar 6, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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 incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
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