CVE-2010-2238 (GCVE-0-2010-2238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-08-19 17:43 – Updated: 2024-08-07 02:25
VLAI
Summary
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://libvirt.org/news.html x_refsource_MISC
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2010-07-27 00:00
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