ALPINE-CVE-2020-29040

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    ALPINE-CVE-2020-29040

    Published: 24 Nov 2020Last Modified: 11 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-29040

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (stack corruption), cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because of an off-by-one error. NOTE: this issue is caused by an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-27671.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-29040

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/xen?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.12.4-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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