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Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE36-XEN-343558
  • published14 Aug 2018
  • disclosed14 Aug 2018
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Introduced: 14 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-3620  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Alpine security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Alpine:3.6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Alpine.

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.

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