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TITLE:
Xen Qemu Monitor Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50493

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-09-07

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Xen, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to gain escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the VNC graphical
display when handling certain key sequences and can be exploited to
gain access to the hosts monitor console.

Successful exploitation requires that a graphical console is
configured.

This is related to:
SA24575

The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.0 and later.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch.

Further details available in Customer Area:
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
XSA-19:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00007.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00008.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
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EXPLOIT:
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