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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19962: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19962: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/08/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/15/2019
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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