DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380
Upstream
Published
2017-01-23T21:59:02Z
Modified
2025-09-19T06:06:18Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xen?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xen?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xen?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xen?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}