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SUSE: CVE-2016-9380: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-9380: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/09/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-pdf
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-trace
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:3044-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:3067-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:3083-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:3156-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:3174-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:3273-1
  • 94473
  • 1037347
  • GLSA-201612-56
  • CVE-2016-9380
  • DLA-720-1
  • DSA-3729
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