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.
CVE-2010-2238
- No confirmed exploitation signals yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- —
- EG Score
- 0.0(none)
- EPSS
- 23.5%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 19, 2010
Last Modified
April 29, 2026
References (18)
- secalert@redhathttp://libvirt.org/news.html
- secalert@redhathttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
- secalert@redhathttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
- secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
- secalert@redhathttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
- secalert@redhathttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
- secalert@redhathttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
- secalert@redhathttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://libvirt.org/news.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libvirt-bin (0.7.5-5ubuntu27.5) @ lucid | 2026-05-29 | ubuntu |
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