ALPINE-CVE-2017-8905

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-8905
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-8905.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-8905
Upstream
Published
2017-05-11T19:29:00.303Z
Modified
2026-06-15T18:25:23.876772408Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Xen through 4.6.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles a failsafe callback, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-215.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.3 / xen

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.3-r7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-8905.json"

Alpine:v3.4 / xen

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.3-r9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-8905.json"

Alpine:v3.5 / xen

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.7.2-r1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-8905.json"