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Alpine: xen: security update to 4.14.5-r6

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407806

Description

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

 - Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored Due to a bug in the fix of XSA-115 a malicious guest can cause
 xenstored to use a wrong pointer during node creation in an error path, resulting in a crash of xenstored
 or a memory corruption in xenstored causing further damage. Entering the error path can be controlled by
 the guest e.g. by exceeding the quota value of maximum nodes per domain. (CVE-2022-42309)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-42309

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 407806

Version: Revision 1.34

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42309

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42309

IAVB: 2022-B-0048-S