Name | CVE-2020-15708 |
Description | Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code. |
Source | CVE (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 Package | Release | Version | Status |
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libvirt (PTS) | bullseye | 7.0.0-3+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.0.0-4+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.10.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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libvirt | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- libvirt <not-affected> (Ubuntu specific issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866270#c2
Debian used to use polkit in 1.2.9-rc1-1 and only later on
enabled as well libvirtd socket activation. Ubuntu OTOH continued
to ship the Allow-libvirt-group-to-access-the-socket.patch patch
which caused the CVE-2020-15708 issue.
Upstream improved documentation in with:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-August/msg00360.html