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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-10981: xen Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-10981: xen Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/10/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/13/2018
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) in situations where a QEMU device model attempts to make invalid transitions between states of a request.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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