Information Exposure Affecting virt-manager package, versions <2.2.1-r0
Threat Intelligence
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- published6 Dec 2024
- disclosed3 Jul 2019
Introduced: 3 Jul 2019
CVE-2019-10183 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.21 virt-manager to version 2.2.1-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream virt-manager package and not the virt-manager package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.
Virt-install(1) utility used to provision new virtual machines has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments, thus leaking them to others users on the system via process listing. It was introduced recently in the virt-manager v2.2.0 release.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109027
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10183
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10183
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1726232
- https://virt-manager.org/download/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/03/1