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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-31142: Vulnerability in Xen

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-31142: Vulnerability in Xen

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/16/2024
Created
06/11/2024
Added
06/06/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

Because of a logical error in XSA-407 (Branch Type Confusion), the mitigation is not applied properly when it is intended to be used. XSA-434 (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) uses the same infrastructure, so is equally impacted. For more details, see: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-407.html https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.html

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

References

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