CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2178
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
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.
Affected configurations
• redhat libvirt 0.8.8
• redhat libvirt 0.9.0
• redhat libvirt 0.9.1
References
- http://libvirt.org/news.html libvirt.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062515.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-06/msg00030.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-2178.html people.canonical.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1152-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709769 Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709775 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg01935.html Patch
- http://libvirt.org/news.html libvirt.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062515.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-06/msg00030.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-2178.html people.canonical.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1152-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709769 Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709775 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg01935.html Patch