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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42327: Improper Access Control

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Nov 1, 2022
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

x86: unintended memory sharing between guests On Intel systems that support the "virtualize APIC accesses" feature, a guest can read and write the global shared xAPIC page by moving the local APIC out of xAPIC mode. Access to this shared page bypasses the expected isolation that should exist between two guests.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
Title
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