CVE-2018-12892

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Adicionalmente, los dispositivos CDROM (dispositivos especificados para ser presentados al invitado como CDROM, independientemente de la naturaleza del almacenamiento de reserva en el host) no se han visto afectados, ya que siempre son de solo lectura. Solo los sistemas que emplean qemu-xen (en lugar de qemu-xen-traditional) como versi\u00f3n del modelo del dispositivo son vulnerables. Solo los sistemas que emplean las pilas de herramientas de libxl basadas en libxl son vulnerables. (Esto incluye xl y libvirt con el controlador de libxl). La vulnerabilidad est\u00e1 presente en las versiones 4.7 y siguientes de Xen. (En versiones anteriores, si se ha aplicado el parche para XSA-142, los intentos de creaci\u00f3n de discos de solo lectura se rechazan). 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