Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen (opens in a new tab)
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- published27 Apr 2018
- disclosed27 Apr 2018
Introduced: 27 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-10471 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Alpine security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Alpine:3.11.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Alpine.
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754.
References
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-259.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10471
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104003
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-10471