Executive Summary
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Title | xen security and bug fix update |
Informations | |||
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Name | RHSA-2009:0003 | First vendor Publication | 2009-01-07 |
Vendor | RedHat | Last vendor Modification | 2009-01-07 |
Severity (Vendor) | Moderate | Revision | 01 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 7.2 | Attack Range | Local |
Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Low |
Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Problem Description: Updated xen packages that resolve several security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64 RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64 3. Description: The xen packages contain the Xen tools and management daemons needed to manage virtual machines running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Xen was found to allow unprivileged DomU domains to overwrite xenstore values which should only be changeable by the privileged Dom0 domain. An attacker controlling a DomU domain could, potentially, 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 the xenstore tree read-only to the unprivileged DomU domains. (CVE-2008-4405) It was discovered that the qemu-dm.debug script created a temporary file in /tmp in an insecure way. A local attacker in Dom0 could, potentially, use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. Note: This script is not needed in production deployments and therefore was removed and is not shipped with updated xen packages. (CVE-2008-4993) This update also fixes the following bug: * xen calculates its running time by adding the hypervisor's up-time to the hypervisor's boot-time record. In live migrations of para-virtualized guests, however, the guest would over-write the new hypervisor's boot-time record with the boot-time of the previous hypervisor. This caused time-dependent processes on the guests to fail (for example, crond would fail to start cron jobs). With this update, the new hypervisor's boot-time record is no longer over-written during live migrations. All xen users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. The Xen host must be restarted for the update to take effect. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 464455 - timer stops running after live migrate or dom0 reboot & save/restore of a Xen guest 464817 - CVE-2008-4405 xen: Multiple unsafe uses of guest-writable data from xenstore 470795 - CVE-2008-4993 xen: insecure temporary file use in qemu-dm.debug |
Original Source
Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0003.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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50 % | CWE-264 | Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls |
50 % | CWE-59 | Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10627 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10627 | ||
Title: | xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this 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 was originally reported as an issue in libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen. | ||
Description: | xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this 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 was originally reported as an issue in libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2008-4405 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 CentOS Linux 5 Oracle Linux 5 | Product(s): | |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21845 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21845 | ||
Title: | ELSA-2009:0003: xen security and bug fix update (Moderate) | ||
Description: | qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | ELSA-2009:0003-01 CVE-2008-4405 CVE-2008-4993 | Version: | 13 |
Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 5 | Product(s): | xen |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28776 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28776 | ||
Title: | RHSA-2009:0003 -- xen security and bug fix update (Moderate) | ||
Description: | Updated xen packages that resolve several security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The xen packages contain the Xen tools and management daemons needed to manage virtual machines running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Xen was found to allow unprivileged DomU domains to overwrite xenstore values which should only be changeable by the privileged Dom0 domain. An attacker controlling a DomU domain could, potentially, 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 the xenstore tree read-only to the unprivileged DomU domains. (CVE-2008-4405) | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | RHSA-2009:0003 CESA-2009:0003-CentOS 5 CVE-2008-4405 CVE-2008-4993 | Version: | 3 |
Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 CentOS Linux 5 | Product(s): | xen |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9576 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9576 | ||
Title: | qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file. | ||
Description: | qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2008-4993 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 CentOS Linux 5 Oracle Linux 5 | Product(s): | |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Type | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
Application | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
Date | Description |
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2011-08-09 | Name : CentOS Update for xen CESA-2009:0003 centos5 i386 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0003_xen_centos5_i386.nasl |
2009-09-21 | Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:015 File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_015.nasl |
2009-01-20 | Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:016 (xen) File : nvt/mdksa_2009_016.nasl |
2009-01-13 | Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0003 (xen) File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0003.nasl |
2009-01-07 | Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0003 File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0003.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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49708 | Xen qemu-dm.debug /tmp/args Temporary File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite |
48894 | libvirt xenstore /local/domain/ Subdirectory Xen Guest VM File Modification |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2014-11-26 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2009-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20090107_xen_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2010-01-06 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2009-0003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2009-09-02 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_0_xen-090821.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2009-01-07 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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