<p>Upgrade <code>Alpine:3.14</code> <code>xen</code> to version 4.11.1-r0 or higher.</p>

Reachable Assertion Affecting xen package, versions <4.11.1-r0

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality High

Integrity High

Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.04% (12^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE314-XEN-1308429
published 21 Jul 2020
disclosed 8 Dec 2018

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Introduced: 8 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19963 Open this link in a new tab CWE-617 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.14 xen to version 4.11.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting (for external emulators) was mishandled.