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Alpine: multiple xen packages: security update to 4.8.1-r2

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424715

Description

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

 - Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV
 guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213. (CVE-2017-8903)

 - Xen through 4.8.x mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during GNTTABOP_transfer (aka
 guest transfer) operations, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS,
 aka XSA-214. (CVE-2017-8904)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-8903

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-8904

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424715

Version: Revision 1.8

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8903

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8904

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8903, CVE-2017-8904

BID: 98426, 98428

IAVB: 2017-B-0050-S