CVE-2008-5716
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
xend in Xen 3.3.0 does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2) console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue exists because of erroneous set_permissions calls in the fix for CVE-2008-4405.
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Statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Xen as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Security update released to address CVE-2008-4405 - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0003.html - contained correct patch which did not introduce this problem and resolved the original issue.
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