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CVE-2016-9380
Published: Jan 23, 2017
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa198.patch
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94473
vdb-entry
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GLSA-201612-56
vendor-advisory
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http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html
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1037347
vdb-entry
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https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775
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