CVE - CVE-2011-2178

CVE-ID
CVE-2011-2178	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData function in security/security_manager.c in libvirt 0.8.8 through 0.9.1 uses the wrong argument for a sizeof call, which causes incorrect processing of "security manager private data" that "reopens disk probing" and might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2010-2238 regression.
References
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MISC:FEDORA-2011-9091 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062515.html MISC:USN-1152-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1152-1 MISC:[libvirt] 20110531 [PATCH] security: plug regression introduced in disk probe logic URL:https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg01935.html MISC:http://libvirt.org/news.html URL:http://libvirt.org/news.html MISC:http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-2178.html URL:http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-2178.html MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709769 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709769 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709775 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709775 MISC:openSUSE-SU-2011:0643 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-06/msg00030.html
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20110531	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20110531)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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