vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9379: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 23, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
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