Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting libvirt package, versions [0.8.8,0.9.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317415
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed10 Aug 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2178  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libvirt.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. 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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