CVE-2008-4405

NameCVE-2008-4405
Descriptionxend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this 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 was originally reported as an issue in libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen.
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Debian Bugs503811

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xen-3source(unstable)3.4.0-1503811
xen-unstablesource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

a proposed patch leads to new problems, see CVE-2008-5716

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