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Alpine: xen: security update to 4.16.5-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407843

Description

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

 - Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution in certain vector
 execution units for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable
 information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-40982)

 - A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address
 prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled address, potentially
 leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2023-20569)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-40982

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-20569

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 407843

Version: Revision 1.36

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: 6.1

Percentile: 96.81

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40982

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40982, CVE-2023-20569