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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2238

Published: Aug 19, 2010 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.4 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2238
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.2 (including)0.7.2 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.3 (including)0.7.3 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.4 (including)0.7.4 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.5 (including)0.7.5 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.6 (including)0.7.6 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.7 (including)0.7.7 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.8.0 (including)0.8.0 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.8.1 (including)0.8.1 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.8.2 (including)0.8.2 (including)
LibvirtUbuntudevel*
LibvirtUbuntulucid*
LibvirtUbuntumaverick*
LibvirtUbuntuupstream*

References

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