SB2020092342 - Race condition in xen (Alpine package)
Published: September 23, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020092342
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-25604)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (Dos) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition when migrating timers between x86 HVM vCPU-s in Xen. A remote user on a guest operating system can run a specially crafted program to crash the hypervisor.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.