vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19965: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 8, 2018
Added
Feb 15, 2019
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing 64-bit PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because #GP[0] can occur after a non-canonical address is passed to the TLB flushing code. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown) mitigation.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
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