CVE-2025-27465 Affecting xen package, versions <4.18.5-r1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-XEN-10876842
  • published22 Jul 2025
  • disclosed16 Jul 2025

Introduced: 16 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-27465  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 xen to version 4.18.5-r1 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:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

Certain instructions need intercepting and emulating by Xen. In some cases Xen emulates the instruction by replaying it, using an executable stub. Some instructions may raise an exception, which is supposed to be handled gracefully. Certain replayed instructions have additional logic to set up and recover the changes to the arithmetic flags.

For replayed instructions where the flags recovery logic is used, the metadata for exception handling was incorrect, preventing Xen from handling the the exception gracefully, treating it as fatal instead.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1