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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15469: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15469: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/17/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x. ARM never properly implemented grant table v2, either in the hypervisor or in Linux. Unfortunately, an ARM guest can still request v2 grant tables; they will simply not be properly set up, resulting in subsequent grant-related hypercalls hitting BUG() checks. An unprivileged guest can cause a BUG() check in the hypervisor, resulting in a denial-of-service (crash).

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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