CVE-2024-2193 Affecting xen package, versions <4.16.5-r7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE316-XEN-6465267
  • published19 Mar 2024
  • disclosed15 Mar 2024

Introduced: 15 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-2193  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 xen to version 4.16.5-r7 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:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths.

CVSS Scores

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