Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xen package, versions [4.1.0,4.5.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383817
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jul 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-3259  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Stack-based buffer overflow in the xl command line utility in Xen 4.1.x through 4.5.x allows local guest administrators to gain privileges via a long configuration argument.

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