CVE-2013-2211 (GCVE-0-2013-2211)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-08-28 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:27
VLAI
Summary
The libxenlight (libxl) toolstack library in Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x uses weak permissions for xenstore keys for paravirtualised and emulated serial console devices, which allows local guest administrators to modify the xenstore value via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/26/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/25/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2013-06-21 00:00
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