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CVE-2011-2178

CVE information

Published

12 years ago

Last Modified

4 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

The virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData function in security/security_manager.c in libvirt 0.8.8 through 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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.4/10
Exploit Score
2.7/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -