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Secunia Advisory SA50530

Citrix XenServer Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA50530
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2012-09-06
Last Update 2012-10-30
   
Popularity 1,835 view
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
DoS
Where Local system
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Citrix XenServer 5.0
Citrix XenServer 5.5
Citrix XenServer 5.6
Citrix XenServer 6.0

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2012-3432 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3433 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3494 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3495 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3496 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3498 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3515 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3516 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-4606 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Citrix has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in XenServer, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA49789
SA50191
SA50472

1) An error in the VNC terminal emulator when handling certain escape sequences can be exploited by a guest VM to gain control of the Dom0 domain.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 6.0.2 and prior.


Solution
Apply hotfixes.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
1) James Forshaw, Context Information Security.

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
Citrix:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708

Context Information Security:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-10/0249.html

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Deep Links
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Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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