CVE-2019-10161

Published: 20 June 2019

It was discovered that libvirtd before versions 4.10.1 and 5.4.1 would permit read-only clients to use the virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc() API, specifying an arbitrary path which would be accessed with the permissions of the libvirtd process. An attacker with access to the libvirtd socket could use this to probe the existence of arbitrary files, cause denial of service or cause libvirtd to execute arbitrary programs.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

Package Release Status
libvirt
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
Released (5.4.0-0ubuntu3)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Released (5.4.0-0ubuntu3)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Released (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.12)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
Released (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.27)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)
Released (1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.28+esm1)
Patches:
Upstream: https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=aed6a032cead4386472afb24b16196579e239580 (5.4)
Upstream: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=6aa0c85be9f840a32fcec282185b5ed2513a3aa5 (5.0)
Upstream: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=a27659643b8ae9b26b52fc857cdc5b301184e26e (4.6)
Upstream: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=1f8129c5db3952a57900b8cd1d94e629068e6aa5 (4.1)
Upstream: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=980109c41c8bb55fd105809f2e063667721feaea (1.3.1)

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