CVE-2018-10472

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-10472
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-27 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-31 10:30:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4201-1 xen DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201810-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
XSA-258 - Xen Security Advisories CONFIRM xenbits.xen.org Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1559-1] xen security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Xen XSA-258 Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500748 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 504525 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 710221 Gentoo Linux Xen Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201810-06)
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