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Severity
2.1
Input Validation
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Xen 3.x, possibly before 3.1.2, when running on IA64 systems, does not check the RID value for movtorr, which allows a VTi domain to read memory of other domains.

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Severity
4.7
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Xen 3.1.1 allows virtual guest system users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) by using a debug register (DR7) to set certain breakpoints.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.7
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Xen 3.1.1 does not prevent modification of the CR4 TSC from applications, which allows pv guests to cause a denial of service (crash).

First published (updated )
Severity
6.9
Input Validation
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

pygrub (tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py) in Xen 3.0.3, when booting a guest domain, allows local users with elevated privileges in the guest domain to execute arbitrary commands in domain 0 via a crafted grub.conf file whose contents are used in exec statements.

First published (updated )
Severity
6
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

(1) xenbaked and (2) xenmon.py in Xen 3.1 and earlier allow local users to truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/xenq-shm.

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Severity
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The ssmi emulation in Xen 5.1 on IA64 architectures allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dom0 panic) via certain traffic, as demonstrated using an FTP stress test tool.

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