Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which could allow for privilege escalation.
Package | app-emulation/xen on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 4.12.0-r1 |
Unaffected versions | >= 4.12.0-r1 |
Package | app-emulation/xen-tools on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 4.12.0-r1 |
Unaffected versions | >= 4.12.0-r1 |
Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
A local attacker could potentially gain privileges on the host system or cause a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Xen users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/xen-4.12.0-r1"