CVE-2011-2178 Affecting libvirt package, versions <0.9.1-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBVIRT-351359
  • published10 Aug 2011
  • disclosed10 Aug 2011

Introduced: 10 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2178  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libvirt to version 0.9.1-2 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

The virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData function in security/security_manager.c in libvirt 0.8.8 through 0.9.1 uses the wrong argument for a sizeof call, which causes incorrect processing of "security manager private data" that "reopens disk probing" and might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2010-2238 regression.

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