CVE-2010-2237

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    CVE-2010-2237

    Published: 19 Aug 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.1 through 0.8.2, looks up disk backing stores without referring to the user-defined main disk format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

    References: http://libvirt.org/news.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607810, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High