Alpine: multiple xen packages: security update to 4.3.2-r3 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401166

Description

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

- Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using
Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP), are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of
service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a
different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5149. (CVE-2014-5146)

- Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x, when using shadow pagetables, are not
preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking
these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than
CVE-2014-5146. (CVE-2014-5149)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401166

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 6/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-5149

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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

Patch Publication Date: 8/25/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5146, CVE-2014-5149

BID: 69198, 69199

Detections

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