CVE-2010-2238Libvirt vulnerability

CWE-26414 documents9 sources
Severity
4.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 78.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 19
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:C/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.7 | Impact: 6.9

Affected Packages2 packages

Debianredhat/libvirt< 0.8.3-1+3
NVDlibvirt/libvirt9 versions+8

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-xvqx-w57v-q544: Red Hat libvirt, possibly 02022-05-17
OSV
CVE-2010-2238: Red Hat libvirt, possibly 02010-08-19
CVEList
CVE-2010-2238: Red Hat libvirt, possibly 02010-08-19

💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Whale Intelligent Application Gateway - ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)2010-05-09

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Red Hat
libvirt: regression introduced in disk probe logic2011-05-31
Ubuntu
libvirt regression2010-11-08
Ubuntu
libvirt vulnerabilities2010-10-21
Red Hat
libvirt: ignoring defined disk backing store format when recursing into disk image backing stores2010-07-12
Debian
CVE-2010-2238: libvirt - Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing ...2010

💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2178 libvirt: regression introduced in disk probe logic2011-06-01
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2178 libvirt: regression introduced in disk probe logic [fedora-15]2011-06-01
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-2237 CVE-2010-2238 CVE-2010-2239 CVE-2010-2242 libvirt various flaws [fedora-all]2010-07-12
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-2238 libvirt: ignoring defined disk backing store format when recursing into disk image backing stores2010-06-24
CVE-2010-2238 — Libvirt vulnerability | cvebase