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CVE-2011-2178

Published: 10/08/2011 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.4 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.7
VMScore: 392
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
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Vulnerability Summary

The virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData function in security/security_manager.c in libvirt 0.8.8 up to and including 0.9.1 uses the wrong argument for a sizeof call, which causes incorrect processing of "security manager private data" that "reopens disk probing" and might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2010-2238 regression.

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: regression in 0.8.8 reopens security issue
Debian Bug report logs - #629128 regression in 088 reopens security issue Package: libvirt; Maintainer for libvirt is Debian Libvirt Maintainers <pkg-libvirt-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: "Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debianorg> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:15:04 UTC Severity: serious Tags: patch Fou ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: libvirt vulnerabilities
Libvirt could be made to crash or read arbitrary files on the host ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-2178.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709775http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1152-1http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062515.htmlhttp://libvirt.org/news.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg01935.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-06/msg00030.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709769https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629128https://usn.ubuntu.com/1152-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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