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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8904: xen Multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8904: xen Multiple issues

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/11/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-214.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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