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Ubuntu 7.04 : xen-3.0 vulnerability (USN-527-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28132

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Joris van Rantwijk discovered that the Xen host did not correctly validate the contents of a Xen guests's grug.conf file. Xen guest root users could exploit this to run arbitrary commands on the host when the guest system was rebooted.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/527-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28132

File Name: ubuntu_USN-527-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xen-ioemu-3.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xen-hypervisor-3.0-i386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xen-hypervisor-3.0-i386-pae, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxen3.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xen-docs-3.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xen-utils-3.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xen-hypervisor-3.0-amd64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxen3.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-xen3.0

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2007

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4993

CWE: 20

USN: 527-1