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ghsa-c772-g5j9-w9w8

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:35

Modified

2022-10-16 19:00

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

A flaw was found in libvirt, where it leaked a file descriptor for /dev/mapper/control into the QEMU process. This file descriptor allows for privileged operations to happen against the device-mapper on the host. This flaw allows a malicious guest user or process to perform operations outside of their standard permissions, potentially causing serious damage to the host operating system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

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    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-c772-g5j9-w9w8",
  "modified": "2022-10-16T19:00:30Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:35:07Z",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-22"
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cve-2020-14339

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-12-03 00:00

Modified

2024-08-04 12:39

Severity ?

Summary

A flaw was found in libvirt, where it leaked a file descriptor for `/dev/mapper/control` into the QEMU process. This file descriptor allows for privileged operations to happen against the device-mapper on the host. This flaw allows a malicious guest user or process to perform operations outside of their standard permissions, potentially causing serious damage to the host operating system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860069
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-22	vendor-advisory
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-06	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

n/a

libvirt

Version: libvirt 6.6.0

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