CVE-2016-9379

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Daniel Richman (the Cambridge University Student-Run Computing Facility) and G\u00e1bor Szarka (the Cambridge University Student-Run Computing Facility) as the original reporters.", "bugzilla": {"description": "xen: delimiter injection vulnerabilities in pygrub (XSA-198)", "id": "1392939", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392939"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "4.6", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P", "status": "draft"}, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "8.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["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."], "name": "CVE-2016-9379", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "xen", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}], "public_date": "2016-11-22T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9379\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9379\nhttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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