CVE-2010-2238 Information

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.

Reference

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