CVE-2008-5716

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5716
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-24 18:29:15 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionxend in Xen 3.3.0 does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within the /local/domain xenstore directory 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 exists because of erroneous set_permissions calls in the fix for CVE-2008-4405.

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 3.3.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE Request -- Xen (Upstream patch for CVE-2008-4405 is incomplete) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: Actually make /local/domain/$DOMID readon - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xensource.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Xen XenStore Domain Configuration Data Unsafe Storage Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[Xen-devel] PATCH: Actually make /local/domain/$DOMID readonly t - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xensource.com
Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: Actually make /local/domain/$DOMID readon - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xensource.com
Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: Actually make /local/domain/$DOMID readon - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xensource.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-01-07Tomas HogerNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Xen as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Security update released to address CVE-2008-4405 - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0003.html - contained correct patch which did not introduce this problem and resolved the original issue.

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