UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10472

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10472
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10472.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10472
Upstream
Published
2018-04-27T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:50Z
Severity
  • 5.6 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/xen@4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.5.1-0ubuntu1
4.5.1-0ubuntu2
4.6.0-1ubuntu1
4.6.0-1ubuntu2
4.6.0-1ubuntu4
4.6.0-1ubuntu4.1
4.6.0-1ubuntu4.2
4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
4.6.5-0ubuntu1
4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1
4.6.5-0ubuntu1.2
4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxen-4.6",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxen-dev",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxenstore3.0",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.4-arm64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.4-armhf",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.5-amd64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.5-arm64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.5-armhf",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.6-amd64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.6-arm64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-hypervisor-4.6-armhf",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-system-amd64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-system-arm64",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-system-armhf",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-utils-4.6",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xen-utils-common",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xenstore-utils",
            "binary_version": "4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4"
        }
    ]
}