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Alpine: xen: security update to 4.9.1-r4
high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 407906
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
(host OS CPU hang) via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing. (CVE-2018-7540)
- An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service
(hypervisor crash) or gain privileges by triggering a grant-table transition from v2 to v1.
(CVE-2018-7541)
- An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.10.x allowing x86 PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of
service (NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash) by leveraging the mishandling of configurations
that lack a Local APIC. (CVE-2018-7542)
See Also
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-7540
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 407906
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: Medium
Score: 5
Percentile: 95.11
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.1
Temporal Score: 4.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7541
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.8
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-7540, CVE-2018-7541, CVE-2018-7542
IAVA: 2018-A-0094-S