Directory Traversal Affecting libvirt package, versions <1.3.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBVIRT-1550987
  • published11 Apr 2016
  • disclosed11 Apr 2016

Introduced: 11 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-5313  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libvirt to version 1.3.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt package and not the libvirt package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.

CVSS Scores

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