First published: Thu Jun 24 2010(Updated: )
It was found that libvirt did not honour the user defined main disk format in guest XML when looking up disk backing stores in the security drivers. This could be possibly exploited by priviledged guest user to access arbitrary files on the host.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
libvirt | =0.6.1 | |
libvirt | =0.6.2 | |
libvirt | =0.6.3 | |
libvirt | =0.6.4 | |
libvirt | =0.6.5 | |
libvirt | =0.7.0 | |
libvirt | =0.7.1 | |
libvirt | =0.7.2 | |
libvirt | =0.7.3 | |
libvirt | =0.7.4 | |
libvirt | =0.7.5 | |
libvirt | =0.7.6 | |
libvirt | =0.7.7 | |
libvirt | =0.8.0 | |
libvirt | =0.8.1 | |
libvirt | =0.8.2 |
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CVE-2010-2237 has been classified as a moderate severity vulnerability.
To fix CVE-2010-2237, update libvirt to a version later than 0.8.2.
CVE-2010-2237 allows a privileged guest user to potentially access arbitrary files on the host system.
There are no publicly known exploits for CVE-2010-2237, but the vulnerability could still be exploited by attackers.
CVE-2010-2237 affects libvirt versions from 0.6.1 to 0.8.2.