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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when nul-delimited output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via NUL bytes in the bootloader configuration file.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11xen0, 0, 0
Debian:14xen0, 0, 0
Debian:12xen0, 0, 0
Debian:13xen0, 0, 0

Timeline

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

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