ALPINE-CVE-2017-15596

ALPINE-CVE-2017-15596 PUBLISHED CVSS 6 MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (prevent physical CPU usage) because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.5	xen	4.1.0-r0, 4.2.0-r7, 4.2.1-r1
Alpine:v3.6	xen	4.1.2-r5, 4.0.1-r0, 4.0.1-r2
Alpine:v3.4	xen	0, 4.0.1-r1, 4.0.1-r3

Timeline

Oct 18, 2017 CVE Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-15596 advisory

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