Vulnerability CVE-2010-2238
Published: 2010-08-19   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.9/10
2.7/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
None
None
Affected software
Libvirt -> Libvirt 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
http://libvirt.org/news.html
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