ALPINE-CVE-2026-79610

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-79610
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-79610.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-79610
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-79610
Published
2026-10-13T16:17:23Z
Modified
2026-10-14T09:30:02Z
Summary
[none]
Details

XSA-501 was about issues with v1 -> v2 and v2 -> v1 changes racing certain other grant table operations. Sadly a v2 -> v1 -> v2 change has yet another effect which wasn't accounted for: During the first change, status pages would be freed. During the second change they would be allocated again. Hence across the full pair of change the addresses of the status pages may change, rendering stale previously calculated pointers into the status array.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.21 / xen

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.19.6-r2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-79610.json"

Alpine:v3.22 / xen

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.20.4-r2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-79610.json"

Alpine:v3.23 / xen

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.20.4-r2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-79610.json"

Alpine:v3.24 / xen

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.21.2-r2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-79610.json"