Ubuntu: xen-3.0 vulnerability
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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-527-1 October 05, 2007 xen-3.0 vulnerability CVE-2007-4993 ========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.04: xen-utils-3.0 3.0.3-0ubuntu10.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to affect the necessary changes. Details follow: Joris van Rantwijk discovered that the Xen host did not correctly validate the contents of a Xen guests's grug.conf file. Xen guest root users could exploit this to run arbitrary commands on the host when the guest system was rebooted. Updated packages for Ubuntu 7.04: Source archives: Size/MD5: 43307 2f531fea82cc88494f81bbdd050ef824 Size/MD5: 1023 3336b4ce7f13d381400bb6d0a80cd0b7 Size/MD5: 5465571 98ac5465ff111a3ff76a985bf755c6a5 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5: 533754 b65c9495bcfa717ed1a5b8c46f999402 amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon): Size/MD5: 70804 ffc9f9d0ab7f8df7df2e0ffd8f08285c Size/MD5: 73492 dd35493b60f4792e345abda43d20aa8b Size/MD5: 420742 a1638f0e7cbbf5685b041abc158dfa8a Size/MD5: 271940 66492dd5d6a4c52fc97114d2bb983ffa Size/MD5: 317284 88a2027bff8d08983d0d8771859e68fd Size/MD5: 283572 8e9197196e594faf891ce535014b6c71 i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD): Size/MD5: 70800 0295889477fb1b8c83edb7cfe2b6872a Size/MD5: 69486 b24236890f2ba901e4852188a72ebb22 Size/MD5: 416932 81e667521fe88fe02db3355b42bf5e5b Size/MD5: 269408 1c2d69bafb3ca2d540dc13105ac40e10 Size/MD5: 251070 facaee8d4581cdbfe7682b30e87e8065 Size/MD5: 298840 6a863568a47389b1d2990c97bdcb2620 Size/MD5: 272848 90980654788696fad35a613fcc562a88