Candidate: CVE-2015-7311
PublicDate: 2015-10-01 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7311
 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-142.html
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 seth-arnold> The patch may break deployed environments but those environments
  are currently not safe
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Michael Young
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_xen:
 upstream: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa142-4.5.patch
 upstream: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa142-4.6.patch
Tags_xen: universe-binary
upstream_xen: needed
precise_xen: not-affected (4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6)
trusty_xen: released (4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3)
trusty/esm_xen: DNE (trusty was released [4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3])
vivid_xen: released (4.5.0-1ubuntu4.3)
wily_xen: released (4.5.1-0ubuntu1.1)
devel_xen: released (4.5.1-0ubuntu2)