CVE-2016-9379

Description

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when S-expression output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via string quotes and S-expressions in the bootloader configuration file.

References

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa198.patch

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037347

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94473

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3