Candidate: CVE-2016-9380
PublicDate: 2017-01-23 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9380
 https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html
Description:
 The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when nul-delimited output format is
 requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or
 delete arbitrary files on the host via NUL bytes in the bootloader
 configuration file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> This is XSA-198
 tyhicks> issue present in xen-utils-4.x binary packages which are in
  universe
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Daniel Richman and Gábor Szarka
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_xen:
Tags_xen: universe-binary
upstream_xen: needed
precise_xen: released (4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.13)
precise/esm_xen: DNE (precise was released [4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.13])
trusty_xen: released (4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.9)
trusty/esm_xen: DNE (trusty was released [4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.9])
vivid/ubuntu-core_xen: DNE
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_xen: DNE
xenial_xen: released (4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3)
esm-infra/xenial_xen: released (4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3)
yakkety_xen: released (4.7.0-0ubuntu2.1)
zesty_xen: released (4.8.0-1ubuntu1)
devel_xen: released (4.8.0-1ubuntu1)