CVE-2024-2193 Affecting xen package, versions <4.18.0-r5
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-XEN-7012722
- published 23 May 2024
- disclosed 15 Mar 2024
Introduced: 15 Mar 2024
CVE-2024-2193 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20 xen to version 4.18.0-r5 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.
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.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/12/14
- https://download.vusec.net/papers/ghostrace_sec24.pdf
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=944d5fe50f3f03daacfea16300e656a1691c4a23
- https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2024/03/12/ghostrace
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488902
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EIUICU6CVJUIB6BPJ7P5QTPQR5VOBHFK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H63LGAQXPEVJOES73U4XK65I6DASOAAG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZON4TLXG7TG4A2XZG563JMVTGQW4SF3A/
- https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7016.html
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488902
- https://www.vusec.net/projects/ghostrace/
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-453.html