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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-10472: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-10472: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/27/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/31/2018
Modified
10/31/2018

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-tools

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