CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5716
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
xend in Xen 3.3.0 does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2) console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue exists because of erroneous set_permissions calls in the fix for CVE-2008-4405.
Affected configurations
• citrix xen 3.3.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00842.html lists.xensource.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00845.html lists.xensource.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00846.html lists.xensource.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00847.html lists.xensource.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/19/1 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31499 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47668 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00842.html lists.xensource.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00845.html lists.xensource.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00846.html lists.xensource.com
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00847.html lists.xensource.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/19/1 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31499 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47668 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com