Alpine: multiple xen packages: security update to 4.5.1-r1 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401031

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- Stack-based buffer overflow in the xl command line utility in Xen 4.1.x through 4.5.x allows local guest
administrators to gain privileges via a long configuration argument. (CVE-2015-3259)

- Heap-based buffer overflow in the IDE subsystem in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier, when the
container has a CDROM drive enabled, allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code on the host via
unspecified ATAPI commands. (CVE-2015-5154)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401031

Version: Revision 1.28

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5154

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3259, CVE-2015-5154

BID: 75573, 76048

IAVA: 2015-A-0184-S

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