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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-2193: Vulnerability in Xen

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-2193: Vulnerability in Xen

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/15/2024
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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