[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#464044: xen-unstable: CVE-2007-3919 prone to symlink attack

[Nico Golde]

Source: xen-unstable
Version: 3.0-unstable+hg11561-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for xen-unstable.

CVE-2007-3919[0]:
| (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.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3919

Kind regards
Nico

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