UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29482
See a problem?- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29482
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29482.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29482
- Related
- Published
- 2020-12-15T18:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2020-12-15T18:15:00Z
- Severity
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- 6.0 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. A guest may access xenstore paths via absolute paths containing a full pathname, or via a relative path, which implicitly includes /local/domain/$DOMID for their own domain id. Management tools must access paths in guests' namespaces, necessarily using absolute paths. oxenstored imposes a pathname limit that is applied solely to the relative or absolute path specified by the client. Therefore, a guest can create paths in its own namespace which are too long for management tools to access. Depending on the toolstack in use, a malicious guest administrator might cause some management tools and debugging operations to fail. For example, a guest administrator can cause "xenstore-ls -r" to fail. However, a guest administrator cannot prevent the host administrator from tearing down the domain. All systems using oxenstored are vulnerable. Building and using oxenstored is the default in the upstream Xen distribution, if the Ocaml compiler is available. Systems using C xenstored are not vulnerable.
- References
Affected packages
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / xen
Package
- Name
- xen
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
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Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / xen
Package
- Name
- xen
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / xen
Package
- Name
- xen
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
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Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected