Directory Traversal Affecting libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu package, versions <0:2.0.0-10.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-LIBVIRTDAEMONDRIVERQEMU-2508561
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • 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 Oracle:7 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu to version 0:2.0.0-10.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2016-2577.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu package and not the libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 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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