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Debian 11: Xen Critical Privilege Escalation DSA-6068-1 CVE-2024-28956

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2025
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Multiple vulnerabilities in the Xen hypervisor fixed for Debian Bookworm and Trixie, enhancing system security and stability.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in memory disclosure, denial of service or privilege escalation
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security advisory denial of service debian privilege escalation memory disclosure xen

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed
in version 4.17.5+72-g01140da4e8-1.

For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-0+deb13u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

For the detailed security status of xen please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xen

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: xen
CVE ID: CVE-2024-28956 CVE-2024-36350 CVE-2024-36357

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security advisory denial of service debian privilege escalation memory disclosure xen

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