Credentials Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libguestfs  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBGUESTFS-645288
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed29 Jun 2012

Introduced: 29 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-2690  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libguestfs package and not the libguestfs package as distributed by Ubuntu.

virt-edit in libguestfs before 1.18.0 does not preserve the permissions from the original file and saves the new file with world-readable permissions when editing, which might allow local guest users to obtain sensitive information.