CVE-2016-9379

HIGH7.9

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when S-expression output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via string quotes and S-expressions in the bootloader configuration file

Published Jan 23, 2017

Modified 1 years ago

Details

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when S-expression output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via string quotes and S-expressions in the bootloader configuration file.

References

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94473

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http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037347

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http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html

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http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa198.patch

ADVISORY

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56

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