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libguestfs: possible host corruption

Package(s):libguestfs CVE #(s):CVE-2010-3851
Created:November 3, 2010 Updated:July 7, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

libguestfs doesn't currently allow the format of a disk to be specified explicitly, and therefore always uses automatic format detection. It takes disk images as arguments, and can therefore only be run by the virtualisation administrator. However, if a malicious guest administrator knows that libguestfs will run against their image, they could still use this technique to corrupt the host.

Alerts:
Scientific Linux SL-libg-20110519 2011-05-19
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0586-01 2011-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2010-17202 2010-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2010-16835 2010-10-28

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libguestfs: possible host corruption

Posted Nov 4, 2010 14:56 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

This is hopefully a more technically informative description of the problem:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-October/m...

This has been fixed in all versions of Fedora, and the fix is going to be backported to EPEL 5.

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