Code Affecting xen package, versions [4.1.0,4.5.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383780
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Oct 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-7311  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-17  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Code libxl in Xen 4.1.x through 4.6.x does not properly handle the readonly flag on disks when using the qemu-xen device model, which allows local guest users to write to a read-only disk image.

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