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Alpine: xen: security update to 4.9.2-r1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407907

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service
 (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect
 fix for CVE-2017-5754. (CVE-2018-10471)

 - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations)
 to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target
 file as the backing file of a snapshot. (CVE-2018-10472)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-10471

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-10472

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 407907

Version: Revision 1.25

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: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10471, CVE-2018-10472

BID: 104002, 104003

IAVB: 2018-B-0057-S