CVE-2015-3259

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-07-07
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1238088: CVE-2015-3259 xen: xl command line config handling stack overflow (XSA-137)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the xl command line utility in Xen 4.1.x through 4.5.x allows local guest administrators to gain privileges via a long configuration argument.

Find out more about CVE-2015-3259 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue does not affect the Xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

External References

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