DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9379

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9379 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.900000095367432 HIGH

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when S-expression output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via string quotes and S-expressions in the bootloader configuration file.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

7.900000095367432

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	xen	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	xen	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	xen	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	xen	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jan 23, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9379 advisory

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