CVE-2015-7311
N/A
Published: October 1, 2015 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
libxl in Xen 4.1.x through 4.6.x does not properly handle the readonly flag on disks when using the qemu-xen device model, which allows local guest users to write to a read-only disk image.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167077.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167792.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167820.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00053.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414
References (10)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167077.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167792.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167820.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00053.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-142.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-17
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