Alpine: xen: security update to 4.15.3-r1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435826

Description

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

- Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially
leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2022-23825)

- Mis-trained branch predictions for return instructions may allow arbitrary speculative code execution
under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions. (CVE-2022-29900)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 435826

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

Percentile: 96.59

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23825, CVE-2022-29900

Detections

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