CVE-2016-9379 | BDVDB-2026-80605 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa198.patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94473
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037347
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-01-23Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.