vulnerability
Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9380: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jan 23, 2017 | Oct 30, 2017 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 23, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
Description
The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when nul-delimited output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via NUL bytes in the bootloader configuration file.
Solutions
gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xengentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-pvgrubgentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-tools
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