CVE-2015-7311 — XEN vulnerability

CWE-176 documents6 sources
Severity
3.6LOWNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 79.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
XENDebian XEN
Timeline
PublishedOct 1
Latest updateMay 14

Description

libxl in Xen 4.1.x through 4.6.x does not properly handle the readonly flag on disks when using the qemu-xen device model, which allows local guest users to write to a read-only disk image.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:N/I:P/A:PExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/xen< xen 4.8.0~rc3-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianxen/xen< 4.8.0~rc3-1+3
▶NVDxen/xen22 versions+21

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wx4v-7h7w-4x2j: libxl in Xen 4↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2015-7311: libxl in Xen 4↗2015-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
xen: libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (xsa-142)↗2015-09-22
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Debian
CVE-2015-7311: xen - libxl in Xen 4.1.x through 4.6.x does not properly handle the readonly flag on d...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7311 xen: libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (xsa-142)↗2015-09-22
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