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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2239

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
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2239
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.0 through 0.8.2, creates new images without setting the user-defined backing-store format, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LibvirtLibvirt0.6.0 (including)0.6.0 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.6.1 (including)0.6.1 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.6.2 (including)0.6.2 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.6.3 (including)0.6.3 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.6.4 (including)0.6.4 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.6.5 (including)0.6.5 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.0 (including)0.7.0 (including)
LibvirtLibvirt0.7.1 (including)0.7.1 (including)
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)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatlibvirt-0:0.6.3-33.el5_5.3*
LibvirtUbuntudevel*
LibvirtUbuntujaunty*
LibvirtUbuntukarmic*
LibvirtUbuntulucid*
LibvirtUbuntumaverick*
LibvirtUbuntuupstream*

References

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