Alpine: multiple qemu packages: security update to 2.5.0-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401056

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial
of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and
backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability. (CVE-2015-8550)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401056

Version: Revision 1.25

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: 5

Percentile: 95.11

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8550

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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: 2/24/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8550

BID: 79592

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