CVE-2016-9380: Input Validation

First published: Mon Jan 23 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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