ALPINE-CVE-2019-17347 — Vulnetix

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ALPINE-CVE-2019-17347 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.800000190734863 HIGH

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because a guest can manipulate its virtualised %cr4 in a way that is incompatible with Linux (and possibly other guest kernels).

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

7.800000190734863

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.9	xen	0, 4.0.1-r0, 4.0.1-r1

Timeline

Oct 8, 2019 CVE Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-17347 advisory

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