CVE-2008-4405

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4405
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-10-03 17:41:40 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Citrix Xen 3.0.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xensource.com
Bug 464818 – libvirt/virsh access unsafe data from xenstored af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:016 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Xen XenStore Domain Configuration Data Unsafe Storage Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Xen xenstore Database Storage Weakness May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Xen XenStore Domain Backend Configuration Weakness - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
oss-security - Re: CVE Request (xen) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xensource.com
oss-security - CVE Request (xen) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Bug 464817 – CVE-2008-4405 xen: Multiple unsafe uses of guest-writable data from xenstore af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Mercurial repository not found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xenbits.xensource.com Exploit
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