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Race Condition Affecting xen package, versions <4.9.0-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.23% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-XEN-7012690
  • published 23 May 2024
  • disclosed 5 Jul 2017
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Introduced: 5 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10914 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-415 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 xen to version 4.9.0-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.

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.