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Alpine: multiple xen packages: security update to 4.17.0-r2
medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424688
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:- When SMT is enabled, certain AMD processors may speculatively execute instructions using a target from the
sibling thread after an SMT mode switch potentially resulting in information disclosure. (CVE-2022-27672)
- Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a
kexec) the libxl based Xen toolstack will normally perform a XS_RELEASE Xenstore operation. Due to a bug
in xenstored this can result in a crash of xenstored. Any other use of XS_RELEASE will have the same
impact. (CVE-2022-42330)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 424688
Version: Revision 1.10
Type: Local
Published: 4/4/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.95
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.8
Temporal Score: 2.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27672
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.7
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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: 1/26/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-27672, CVE-2022-42330
IAVB: 2023-B-0090-S