CVE-2015-7311
Published: 01 October 2015
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.
Priority
Medium
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needed
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(4.5.1-0ubuntu2)
|
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
(trusty was released [4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3])
|
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Patches: Upstream: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa142-4.5.patch Upstream: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa142-4.6.patch |
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| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| seth-arnold | The patch may break deployed environments but those environments are currently not safe |