CVE-2016-9380 (GCVE-0-2016-9380)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:50
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94473Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037347Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa198.patchPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94473Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037347Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa198.patchPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775Patch, Third Party Advisory
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