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Information Exposure Affecting xen package, versions <4.10.1-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-XEN-7012392
  • published 23 May 2024
  • disclosed 27 Apr 2018
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Introduced: 27 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-10472 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 xen to version 4.10.1-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:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot.