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Medium
CVE-2010-2238
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4, 0.7.5, 0.7.6, 0.7.7, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 19th, 2010
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.