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FreeBSD: xen-tools -- libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (CVE-2015-7311)

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FreeBSD: xen-tools -- libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (CVE-2015-7311)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/01/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/12/2015
Modified
11/12/2015

Description

libxl in Xen 4.1.x through 4.6.x does not properly handle the readonly flag on disks when using the qemu-xen device model, which allows local guest users to write to a read-only disk image.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-xen-tools

References

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