CVE-2008-5716 (GCVE-0-2008-5716)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-24 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:04
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Summary
xend in Xen 3.3.0 does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within the /local/domain xenstore directory 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 exists because of erroneous set_permissions calls in the fix for CVE-2008-4405.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 27/100 over 2306 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2008-12-18 00:00
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