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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29040: Off-by-one Error

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29040: Off-by-one Error

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/24/2020
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (stack corruption), cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because of an off-by-one error. NOTE: this issue is caused by an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-27671.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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