PT-2017-10097 · Xen+2 · Xen+2

Daniel Richman + 1 · Published 2016-11-25 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-9379

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.9

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host. This is achieved through string quotes and S-expressions in the bootloader configuration file when S-expression output format is requested.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2364

CVE-2016-9379

DLA-720-1

DSA-3729-1

MGASA-2017-0012

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3134-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0007-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0008-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

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

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Xen

References · 183

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3067-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3729-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3273-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9379 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0012.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3174-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0012 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3083-1 · Vendor Advisory