CVE-2010-2223

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H or rhev-hypervisor) before 5.5-2.2 does not properly perform VM post-zeroing after the removal of a virtual machine's data, which allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information by examining the disk blocks associated with a deleted virtual machine.

Affected products

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: through 5.4-2.1

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1024137
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41044
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604752
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0473.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0476.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024137
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41044
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604752
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0473.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0476.html

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