[ MDVSA-2009:016 ] xen
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:016
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : xen
Date : January 16, 2009
Affected: Corporate 4.0
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Problem Description:
Ian Jackson found a security issue in the QEMU block device drivers
backend that could allow a guest operating system to issue a block
device request and read or write arbitrary memory locations, which
could then lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2008-0928).
It was found that Xen allowed unprivileged DomU domains to overwrite
xenstore values which should only be changeable by the privileged
Dom0 domain. An attacker able to control a DomU domain could possibly
use this flaw to kill arbitrary processes in Dom0 or trick a Dom0
user into accessing the text console of a different domain running
on the same host. This update makes certain parts of xenstore tree
read-only to unprivilged DomU domains (CVE-2008-4405).
A vulnerability in the qemu-dm.debug script was found in how it
created a temporary file in /tmp. A local attacker in Dom0 could
potentially use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink
attack (CVE-2008-4993). Since this script is not used in production,
it has been removed from this update package.
The updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0928
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4405
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4993
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Updated Packages:
Corporate 4.0:
3785ed3cf9eaf4abb8842713706daeb3
corporate/4.0/i586/xen-3.0.1-3.2.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
22f6a2eced04422519cbf734df73d453
corporate/4.0/SRPMS/xen-3.0.1-3.2.20060mlcs4.src.rpm
Corporate 4.0/X86_64:
450884c01338338d57834dd0b4947805
corporate/4.0/x86_64/xen-3.0.1-3.2.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
22f6a2eced04422519cbf734df73d453
corporate/4.0/SRPMS/xen-3.0.1-3.2.20060mlcs4.src.rpm
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