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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4405
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CVE-2008-4405

Description:
xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this 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 was originally reported as an issue in libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00001.html

ST
  1020955

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA32064

MLIST
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/04/3
  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00992.html
  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00994.html
  http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/30/6

MISC

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016

CONFIRM
  http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-3.3-testing.hg?rev/e0e17216ba70

BID
  31499


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