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CVE-2008-5716

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2008-12-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

xend in Xen 3.3.0 does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2) console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue exists because of erroneous set_permissions calls in the fix for CVE-2008-4405.

Affected Platforms

Citrix Xen

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References