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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when nul-delimited output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or de...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when nul-delimited output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via NUL bytes in the bootloader configuration file.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 xen

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.8.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 xen

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.8.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 xen

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.8.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org