Information Exposure Affecting libguestfs/libguestfs package, versions [,1.5.23)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBGUESTFSLIBGUESTFS-2364699
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Nov 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Nov 2010

CVE-2010-3851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libguestfs/libguestfs to version 1.5.23 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure libguestfs before 1.5.23, as used in virt-v2v, virt-inspector 1.5.3 and earlier, and possibly other products, when a raw-format disk image is used, allows local guest OS administrators to read files from the host via a crafted (1) qcow2, (2) VMDK, or (3) VDI header, related to lack of support for a disk format specifier.

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