CVE-2010-2238

NameCVE-2010-2238
DescriptionRed 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libvirt (PTS)bullseye7.0.0-3+deb11u3fixed
bookworm9.0.0-4+deb12u2fixed
trixie, sid10.9.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libvirtsourcelenny(not affected)
libvirtsource(unstable)0.8.3-1

Notes

[lenny] - libvirt <not-affected> (only affects >= 0.7.2)

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