41342 : Xen xenbaked /tmp/xenq-shm Symlink Arbitrary File Truncation
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Disclosure Date
2007-10-23

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-3919" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : (1) xenbaked and (2) xenmon.py in Xen 3.1 and earlier allow local users to truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/xenq-shm.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Race Condition
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1018859
CVE ID: 2007-3919 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 26190
Secunia Advisory ID: 27389 27408 27486 27497 29963
ISS X-Force ID: 37403
Related OSVDB ID: 41343
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-3621
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447795
Other Advisory URL: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:203
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1395
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00004.html

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-10-29 | Disagree?

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