CVE-2010-2237

Publication date 19 August 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.1 through 0.8.2, looks up disk backing stores without referring to the user-defined main disk format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libvirt 10.10 maverick
Fixed 0.8.3-1ubuntu8
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 0.7.5-5ubuntu27.5
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes


jdstrand

AppArmor 10.04 should mostly protect the host OS, but an attacker in a virtual machine may be able to access files of another machine. upstream patch is highly intrusive, needs rewriting for all affected releases, requires a conffile change and a migration helper. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is the first release to probe the backing stores

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-1008-1
    • libvirt vulnerabilities
    • 21 October 2010

Other references