Improper Privilege Management Affecting libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter package, versions <0:6.0.0-28.0.1.module+el8.3.0+7860+a7792d29


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-LIBVIRTDAEMONDRIVERNWFILTER-2578313
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Jan 2021

Introduced: 28 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-35517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter to version 0:6.0.0-28.0.1.module+el8.3.0+7860+a7792d29 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2021-0711.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter package and not the libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.

CVSS Scores

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