Description
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | libvirt | 0.8.3-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | libvirt | 0.8.3-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | libvirt | 0.8.3-1 | — |
References
- FEDORA-2010-10960 vendor-advisory
- USN-1008-2 vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2010-11021 vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- USN-1008-1 vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SR:2010:017 vendor-advisory
- USN-1008-3 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2010-2763 vdb-entry