Xen xenstore Database Storage Weakness May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020955 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1020955
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2008-4405
(Links to External Site)
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Updated: Oct 10 2008
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Original Entry Date: Oct 1 2008
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Impact:
User access via local system
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Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 3.3
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Xen. A local user may be able to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
A guest machine can write to the xenstore database location '/local/domain/$DOMID'. A local user can write data to the location that may cause applications reading the data to perform unsafe actions.
libvirt is affected.
The original advisory is available at:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00992.html
Pascal Bouchareine reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A local user may be able to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
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Solution:
No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: xen.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:23:39 -0400
Subject: Xen
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http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00992.html
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